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Dirge vs Hymn - What's the difference?

dirge | hymn |

As nouns the difference between dirge and hymn

is that dirge is a mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person while hymn is a song of praise or worship.

As a verb hymn is

to sing (a hymn).

dirge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

    • Synonyms

    * lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy

    Related terms

    * dirgeful

    Anagrams

    * *

    hymn

    English

    (wikipedia hymn)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A song of praise or worship.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

    • Derived terms

    * hymnal * hymnbook * hymnodist * hymnody * hymnology * hymnographer * hymnography

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sing (a hymn).
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 21, author=Michael Coveney, title=Tom O'Horgan, work=The Guardian citation
    • , passage=An unknown cast, including Diane Keaton, hymned the Age of Aquarius, stripped off at the end of the first act and let the sunshine in at the end of the second. }}
  • To praise or extol in hymns.
  • * Keble
    • To hymn the bright of the Lord.
  • * Byron
    • Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.

    See also

    * theody ----