Crossword-Solution: DIRGE 5 letters, 103 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Dirge	a.	A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DIRGE	anagram	EGRID, GRIDE, REDIG, RIDGE

We have 103 clues for the answer “DIRGE”

Clue	Answers
"Dies Irae" is one	1 answer
"O Captain! My Captain!," e.g.	1 answer
A sad song of mourning	1 answer
Bagpipe music, maybe	1 answer
Bagpipe music, possibly	1 answer
Blue air	1 answer
DEATH march	1 answer
Doleful air	1 answer
Doleful ditty	1 answer
Down tune	1 answer
Elegiac music	1 answer
Elegy awful, Gray initially admitted	1 answer
Funeral accompaniment	1 answer
Funeral composition	1 answer
Funeral hymn	1 answer
Funeral lament	1 answer
Funerary song	1 answer
Funereal music	1 answer
Funereal piece	1 answer
Funereal tune	1 answer
Gloomy air	1 answer
Gloomy tune	1 answer
Hardly a peppy tune	1 answer
Hymn of grief	1 answer
Langdon's heart captured by desperate lament	1 answer
Mournful music	1 answer
Mournful musical composition	1 answer
Mournful tune	1 answer
Mourning air	1 answer
Music for mourners	1 answer
Music unlikely to be played at a party	1 answer
Musical lament	1 answer
No jaunty tune	1 answer
OFFICE for the dead	1 answer
Obsequy song	1 answer
SCOTTISH coronach	1 answer
Sad music	1 answer
Sad psalm	1 answer
Slow march, maybe	1 answer
Sludge metal song, perhaps	1 answer
Solemn music	1 answer
Solemn song	1 answer
Solemn work	1 answer
Somber melody	1 answer
Somber tune	1 answer
Song from "Cymbeline"	1 answer
Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break," e.g.	1 answer
Tune you're unlikely to dance to	1 answer
Unhappy music	1 answer
Unlikely contender for "song of the summer"	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

RAEA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with DIRGE (5)

For the long years heap up a grievous load, Scant pleasures, heavier pains, Till not one joy remains For him who lingers on life’s weary road And come it slow or fast, One doom of fate Doth all await, For dance and marriage bell, The dirge and funeral knell.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night.

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992

While this dirge was sung, in a low and melancholy tone, by the female choristers, the others were divided into two bands, of which one was engaged in bedecking, with such embroidery as their skill and taste could compass, a large silken pall, destined to cover the bier of Athelstane, while the others busied themselves in selecting, from baskets of flowers placed before them, garlands, which they intended for the same mournful purpose.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

The song became a dirge, a lamentable, prolonged wail of distress: “Nee-rah, my Gahd, to Thee, Nee-rah to Thee-ah.” At the end of the song, Uncle Oelbermann put on his hat without a word of warning.

McTeague Frank Norris 2006

Sing another dirge in wailing, For another vessel sailing With the shadow-ships at sea; Shadow-ships for ever sinking -- Shadow-ships whose pumps are clinking, And whose thirsty holds are drinking Pledges to Eternity.

In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 2008

Quotes with DIRGE (3)

Mortality Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid; And the young and the old, the low and the high, Shall molder to dust, and together shall lie. Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together in sunshine and rain; And …

William Knox

Ah! listen the song of storm from my disturbed soul; and it scatters flower buds into its lonely halls; like every pain needs a dirge, with wreaths that awful the world framed one for me, and gives the time it calls.

Nithin Purple Venus and Crepuscule: Beauty and Violence on Me Thrown

Music is not a fucking soda. It is not a fucking insurance rate. It is not a fucking T-shirt. It is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits.

Corey Taylor

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 169 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).