Difference between Lament and Dirge

LAMENT vs DIRGE: NOUN

A song or poem expressing deep grief or mourning.
A feeling or expression of grief; a lamentation.
An expression of grief or sorrow; a sad complaint; a lamentation.
A set form of lamentation or mourning; an elegy; a mourning song or ballad.
The music for an elegy, or a tune intended to express or excite sorrowful emotion; a mournful air.
A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
A cry of sorrow and grief
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
A song expressing grief.
An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.
An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
Synonyms Dirge, Requiem, Elegy, lament, threnody, coronach. The first three are primarily and almost uniformly suggested by the death of some person. A dirge or a requiem may be only music or may be a song. An elegy is a poem, which may or may not be sung. A requiem, being originally sung for the repose of the soul of a deceased person, retains a corresponding character when the music does not accompany words.
A funeral hymn; the funeral service as sung; hence, a song or tune expressing grief, lamentation, and mourning.
The Office of the Dead.
A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work.
A slow, mournful musical composition.
A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
A funeral hymn or lament.

To afflict; distress.
To bewail; mourn for; bemoan; deplore.
Synonyms Lament, Mourn, Grieve; sorrow. Lament expresses always, at least figuratively, an external act. Mourn was originally and is still often the same, but does not now suggest anything audible. Grieve suggests more of a consuming effect upon the person sorrowing. See affliction.
To show great sorrow or regret; repine; chafe; grieve.
To express sorrow; utter words or sounds of grief; mourn audibly; wail.
A mournful poem
A lament for the dead

Complain, Moan, Coronach, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation, Bemoan

Lamentation, Postlude, Balladry, Doomy, Wail, Lullaby, Hymn, Melody, Melancholy, Ballad, Elegy, Coronach, Lament, Requiem, Threnody

Cry, Weep, Mourn, Moan, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation

Anthem, Lamentation, Postlude, Balladry, Doomy, Wail, Lullaby, Hymn, Melody, Melancholy, Ballad, Elegy, Lament, Requiem, Threnody

Pentecostal Lament: Is there a correspondence between the form of the biblical lament Psalms and early Australian Pentecostal prayer?
This is a valuable example of Christologically oriented lament, but it can strip lament of its function as human complaint toward God.
This is the first book I read on lament and the place of lament for the believer.
One does not move from lament to praise, for even in the lament the element of trust is already present.
In these two psalms we pointed out that lament psalms can move back to lament even after praise.
Kemble VA Lament of Aideen for Oscai Lament of Anastasius.
Southern Baptist, and we need to lament that, lament the pain of victims and grieve with them.
Learning to lament and to hear lament means sitting in the darkness with Job?
Christian lament away from imprecation and toward intercession, although room remains for lament?
This commentator categorised lament psalms as a primary category and individual lament psalms and community lament psalms as sub categories.

Noisy, clangy, industrial, dirge rock propelled by an incessantly droney hum of a guitar rhythm.
Sheer Terror type of dirge before it goes off galloping down the fastcore highway.
Why did it sound like the drum roll of a funeral dirge.
The Thin Red Line, but far more primal ndash; whispers a dirge.
The MOOD MUSIC for this puzzle seems like a dirge.
Argive but wept for pity of the dirge they chaunted.
Behind Thrust and Dirge came a tall, dark Cybertronian.
Wish You Were Here chords sound like a dirge.
Advent Children, Crisis Core, Dirge of Cerberus, etc.
And now he goes back into the dirge.