monody

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɒnədi/    美 /ˈmɑnədi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  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.

词形变化

monodies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
monodic monodical monodist

词源

From Latin monodia, from Ancient Greek μονῳδία (monōidía).
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