Mourn

Quick meaning: Mourn is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• mourns
• mourning
• mourned

Synonyms for mourn

Depending on context, synonyms include grieve, lament, weep, aggrieve, besorrow, condole.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grieving, sorrowful, sorrowing, bereavement, bereft, bereaved.

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