Meaning

(ambitransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
2. (ambitransitive) To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially.
3. (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
4. (intransitive) To wear mourning.
5. (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
6. A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

Example Sentences

For two months, she mourned her father's passing.

We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.

In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.

Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle

Word Forms

• mourns
• mourning
• mourned
• morne

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Use mourn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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