English Dictionary

monody

/ˈmɒnədi/

noun

An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge. / Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy. / A monotonous or mournful noise.

The poet composed a beautiful monody to express his grief.

意味（1）

An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.

意味（2）

Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy.

意味（3）

A monotonous or mournful noise.

Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.

意味（4）

(music) 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.