HOW TO PRONOUNCE
elegy
/ˈɛləˌdʒi/
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The g has the j sound.
Keep the first syllable strongest, with the vowel in bed. The final part begins with the sound in job and ends with an ee vowel.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“She wrote an elegy for her friend.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does elegy mean?
noun
- A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
- A composition of mournful character.
- A classical poem written in elegiac meter
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛləˌdʒi/
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So there being no copy, but one pair of cases, and the Elegy likely to require all the letter, no one could help him.
But the first, both in order of time and of merit, was an Elegy, by Miss Seward, whose poetical talents have been displayed in many beautiful instances to the public.
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All the more impressive for that very reason is his elegy in honour of a sailor of another nation, whose merits as a man and whose charm as a writer Campbell had recognised from his boyhood.
He was great in satire, great in humour, but when he pleased could be greater in pathos than in either; for his best piece is an elegy on Barbara Middleton, the sweetest song of the kind ever written.