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monodies

monodies is the plural of monody.

Meaning of monody

Noun

monody (plural monodies)

  1. An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.
  2. Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy.
  3. A monotonous or mournful noise.
    • Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
  4. A composition having a single melodic line.
    • All directions in life were blocked to him. He could not think, he could not sleep, his heart thudded to a deadening monody of fear. Fear that is itself the penalty of all things feared.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 203

Questions about monodies

What is monodies the plural of?
Monodies is the plural of monody.

Words near monodies in the dictionary

  1. monodical
  2. monodically
  3. monodichlamydeous
  4. monodictyphenone
  5. monodictyphenones
  6. monodies
  7. monodiet
  8. monodiets
  9. monodigit
  10. monodigital
  11. monodigitoxoside

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