Mourner

Quick meaning: Mourner is a noun meaning Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.

Meaning

Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.

More Meanings

1. A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.
2. Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.
3. In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.

Example Sentences

I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.

Disuniter of all affection—awful seal to life's nothingness—warning and witness of power and judgment—Death has always enow of terror and sorrow, even when there are many to comfort the mourner, when the path has been smoothed for the sufferer, and life offers all its best and brightest to soothe the survivor; […]

Word Forms

• mourners

Synonyms for mourner

Depending on context, synonyms include griever, lamenter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include griever, lamenter, keener, mute, funeralgoer, moirologist.

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