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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The composer of an elegy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A writer of elegies.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A write of elegies.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead

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