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Plural of elegy

regular plural

The plural of elegy is elegies.

Forms of elegy

Singularelegy /ˈɛlɪd͡ʒi/
Pluralelegies
Countablecountable

Elegies in a sentence

  • Many elegies contain stylized accounts of peaceful deaths that offered a dehortative contrast to the grief-stricken panic of the living.2004, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination, page 45. From the entry dehortative

Meaning of elegy

  1. noun A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
  2. noun A composition of mournful character.
  3. noun A classical poem written in elegiac meter.

Full definition of elegy

Questions about the plural of elegy

What is the plural of elegy?
The plural of elegy is elegies.
Is elegy countable?
Elegy is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elegy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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