Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sorrow; grief.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pain; pang; suffering; distress.
- noun Grief; sorrow; lamentation.
- noun A lesser feast established by Pope Pius VII. in 1814 for the third Sunday of September.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Poetic Pain; grief; distress; anguish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun literary
sorrow ,grief ,misery oranguish - noun a
unit ofpain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (poetry) painful grief
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The unusual amount of humidity during the fall of 1783 caused a rise in dolor de costado, insultos, pulmonías; a sudden drop in temperature in February caused these ailments to increase even more, along with "fluxes of the eyes" and fever in children. 35 The development of instruments for measuring such things as rainfall, temperature, and wind velocity stimulated further efforts to quantify climatic conditions.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Then I then looked at my girlfriend and said, "Donde Pistola? animal in dolor!"
Favorite Song 2005
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Los daños desaparecen padre, pero el dolor es el mismo
NEED HELP ASAP how do u say ' strengh is my mother' in spanish 2009
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Los daños desaparecen padre, pero el dolor es el mismo
NEED HELP ASAP how do u say ' strengh is my mother' in spanish 2009
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Los daños desaparecen padre, pero el dolor es el mismo
NEED HELP ASAP how do u say ' strengh is my mother' in spanish 2009
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Yo sabía que estaba terriblemente lastimada nada más por sus mugidos de dolor.
Chon y su vaca favorita Bessie/ a joke that requires translating 2010
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Los daños desaparecen padre, pero el dolor es el mismo
NEED HELP ASAP how do u say ' strengh is my mother' in spanish 2009
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Los daños desaparecen padre, pero el dolor es el mismo
NEED HELP ASAP how do u say ' strengh is my mother' in spanish 2009
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Ahora me pregunto si un par de Decretos Legislativos valen todo el odio y dolor que generarán estas muertes.
Global Voices in English » Peru: Responsibility for the Casualties in Amazon Conflict 2009
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Yo sabía que estaba terriblemente lastimada nada más por sus mugidos de dolor.
Chon y su vaca favorita Bessie/ a joke that requires translating 2010
duckbill commented on the word dolor
"I spend my doleful days in dumps and dolors."
March 1, 2011
bilby commented on the word dolor
Try starting each morning with a positive thought and a Prolagus breakfast.
March 1, 2011
yarb commented on the word dolor
Another day, another dolor.
March 1, 2011
dontcry commented on the word dolor
This word often appears in my "greeked" type for layouts.
March 1, 2011