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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Monody \Mon"o*dy\, n.; pl. Monodies. [L. monodia, Gr. ?, fr. ?
     singing alone; mo`nos single + ? song: cf. F. monodie. See
     Ode.]
     A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single
     mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Monody \Mon"o*dy\, n.; pl. Monodies. [L. monodia, Gr. ?, fr. ?
     singing alone; ? single + ? song: cf. F. monodie. See Ode.]
     A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single
     mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  monody
       n : music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with
           accompaniment) [syn: monophony, monophonic music]
           [ant: polyphony, polyphony]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  monody
     n.
     1 An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a
  mournful song or dirge. (from 17th c.)
     2 Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy. (from 17th c.)
     3 A monotonous or mournful noise. (from 19th c.)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  monody
     n.
     1 An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a
  mournful song or dirge. (from 17th c.)
     2 Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy. (from 17th c.)
     3 A monotonous or mournful noise. (from 19th c.)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  monody
     n.
     1 An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a
  mournful song or dirge. (from 17th c.)
     2 Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy. (from 17th c.)
     3 A monotonous or mournful noise. (from 19th c.)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  monody
     n.
     1 An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a
  mournful song or dirge. (from 17th c.)
     2 Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy. (from 17th c.)
     3 A monotonous or mournful noise. (from 19th c.)

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  monody /mˈɒnəʊdi/ 
  monódie

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  monody /mˈɒnəʊdi/
  Monodie  [mus.]
   see: monodies, monodist
  

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  monody /mˈɒnəʊdi/ 
  1. एक स्वर गीत
        "On the death ceremony people sing monody to express grief."

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  monody /mˈɒnəʊdi/
  1. tek sesle okunan mersiye
  2. (müz.) tek sesli şarkı, monodi
  3. ses aynılığı.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "monody":
     English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
     Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, accord,
     accordance, alba, anacreontic, attune, attunement, balada, ballad,
     ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, chime, chiming, clerihew,
     concentus, concert, concord, concordance, consonance, consonancy,
     consort, coronach, dead march, death knell, death song, diapason,
     dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epicedium, epigram,
     epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eulogy, euphony,
     funeral march, funeral oration, funeral song, georgic, ghazel,
     graveside oration, haiku, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony,
     homophony, idyll, jingle, keen, knell, limerick, lyric, madrigal,
     monochord, monophony, muffled drums, narrative poem, nursery rhyme,
     ode, palinode, passing bell, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela,
     pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, requiem, rhyme, rondeau, rondel,
     roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet,
     sonnet sequence, symphony, synchronism, synchronization, tanka,
     tenso, tenzone, three-part harmony, threnode, threnody, triolet,
     troubadour poem, tune, unison, unisonance, verse, verselet,
     versicle, villanelle, virelay
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 抒情独唱部,悼诗,挽歌;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 抒情独唱部,悼诗,挽歌

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