Meaning & use
requiem
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A piece of music, or religious ceremony, composed or performed in honor of the dead.
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The choir performed Mozart's Requiem at the memorial service.
The film's haunting score felt like a requiem for a lost era.
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Derived from the Latin Mass for the dead, which begins with the words 'Requiem aeternam' ('eternal rest'); used both literally for the religious rite and figuratively for any tribute to something lost.
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