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Meanings of requiem in English

Portuguese
réquiem
Catalan
gori-gori
Spanish
treno

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

        réquiem
        Usage of requiem in English
        1
        The requiem mass is being held at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
        Radio NZ
        2
        He was deeply moved by the occasion; his address was a requiem.
        Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled Nort...
        3
        And the white-barred river near it sings a requiem all the while.
        The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
        4
        They flashed beams vertically at the ceiling; a signal, or a requiem.
        Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
        5
        The ringing in the coffin is the new requiem... No one answers.'
        The Guardian
        6
        On December 8th the Second requiem was sung from the quartette books.
        Sixty Years of California Song
        7
        The black water of Saguenay was its pall, the storm its requiem.
        The City and the World and Other Stories
        8
        Hundreds turned out, packing St Patrick's Church for the teenager's requiem Mass.
        The Irish Times
        9
        As I looked around, the organist finished one requiem and began another.
        Deadly Décisions
        10
        But this is no requiem for the death of the genre's innocence.
        The Guardian
        11
        I chant thy requiem, and prophets, poets, and seers shall rise again!
        Life of Father Hecker
        12
        Another election, another requiem for the end of civil war politics.
        The Irish Times
        13
        Mr Chambers will be buried today after requiem Mass at noon in Newport.
        The Irish Times
        14
        The other side bears the name and dates and the requiem:
        The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
        15
        There was a requiem service in the morning and the evening.
        The Witch, and Other Stories
        16
        The storm had died away, sighing its own requiem in the misty tree-tops.
        Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3
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        Translations for requiem
        Portuguese
        réquiempranto
        Spanish
        treno
        Requiem through the time
        Requiem across language varieties
        United Kingdom
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