Other forms: eulogies
A eulogy is a speech praising somebody who has died. Give the eulogy, deliver a eulogy, a moving eulogy.
It is usually given at a funeral by a family member or close friend, and it is the part of the service that everybody remembers. In American usage eulogy is standard for that speech; British funerals often use tribute or address for the same thing. Strictly, a eulogy can also be high praise of a living person. Note elegy, which is a poem of mourning and a different word entirely, and eulogise.
1nouneulogyA speech praising somebody who has died.
“The eulogy was full of funny stories about the old man's life.”
eulogy is a speech of praise.
Greek eulogia means good words — eu-, well, plus logos, word. The same eu- gives euphemism, euphoria and eulogy's opposite, which would be a dyslogy if anybody used it.
Ancient Greek
εὐλογία — praise
Latin
eulogium
Middle English
wloge — commendation of the virtues of a deceased person
English, today
eulogy
From Middle English wloge (“commendation of the virtues of a deceased person”), from Latin eulogium, apparently from a confusion between ēlogium (whence elogium, elogy) and eulogia (from Ancient Greek εὐλογία (“praise”), whence eulogia); equivalent to eu- + logia ("good words"). a doublet of eulogium.
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