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REQUIEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Requiem mean? 

REQUIEM (noun)
  The noun REQUIEM has 3 senses:

1. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead personplay

2. a musical setting for a Mass celebrating the deadplay

3. a Mass celebrated for the deadplay

  Familiarity information: REQUIEM used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


REQUIEM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

coronach; dirge; lament; requiem; threnody

Hypernyms ("requiem" is a kind of...):

song; vocal (a short musical composition with words)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "requiem"):

keen (a funeral lament sung with loud wailing)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A musical setting for a Mass celebrating the dead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Requiem" is a kind of...):

Mass (a musical setting for a Mass)

Holonyms ("Requiem" is a part of...):

Requiem (a Mass celebrated for the dead)


Sense 3

Meaning:

A Mass celebrated for the dead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("Requiem" is a kind of...):

Mass ((Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist)

Meronyms (parts of "Requiem"):

Requiem (a musical setting for a Mass celebrating the dead)


 Context examples 


Recent data indicate that integrin stimulation increases FBI-1, XIAP, survivin, and CCT4 expression but inhibits Requiem, c-Fos, and caspase 3 and 7 induction.

(B-Cell Survival Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

But whether the sorrow was too vast to be embodied in music, or music too ethereal to uplift a mortal woe, he soon discovered that the Requiem was beyond him just at present.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As Goethe, when he had a joy or a grief, put it into a song, so Laurie resolved to embalm his love sorrow in music, and to compose a Requiem which should harrow up Jo's soul and melt the heart of every hearer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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