coronach

Questions about coronach

What does coronach mean?

coronach means "a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person".

How many syllables are in coronach?

coronach has 3 syllables and divides as co-ro-nach under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for coronach?

Close synonyms include dirge, lament, requiem, threnody. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coronach a common word?

coronach is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.