<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.</li><li>any composition resembling such a song or tune in character, as a poem of lament for the dead or solemn, mournful music: Tennyson's dirge for the Duke of Wellington.</li><li>a mournful sound resembling a dirge: The autumn wind sang the dirge of summer.</li><li>Ecclesiastical: the office of the dead, or the funeral service as sung.</li></ul>