Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Sorrow; grief.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Pain; pang; suffering; distress.
- n. Grief; sorrow; lamentation.
- n. A lesser feast established by Pope Pius VII. in 1814 for the third Sunday of September.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Pain; grief; distress; anguish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (poetry) painful grief
Etymologies
- Middle English dolour, from Old French, from Latin dolor, pain, from dolēre, to suffer, feel pain.
Examples
“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.”
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“Then I then looked at my girlfriend and said, "Donde Pistola? animal in dolor!”
“Ahora me pregunto si un par de Decretos Legislativos valen todo el odio y dolor que generarán estas muertes.”
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“Los daños desaparecen padre, pero el dolor es el mismo”
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“Yo sabía que estaba terriblemente lastimada nada más por sus mugidos de dolor.”
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“Tener un pequeño apartamento puede ser un dolor de cabeza a la hora de diseñar el interior que deseamos.”
““I could remind you of the old adage: Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.””
“I wear colorful costumes to máscara de mi dolor, my skeleton is held together by metal, and machines, stitches, surgeons.”
“Showing us characters who cry is not the same thing as making a reader weep; the unrelieved dolor can provoke adefensive, metaphorical shrug.”
“Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.”
dontcry This word often appears in my "greeked" type for layouts. Mar 1, 2011
yarb Another day, another dolor. Mar 1, 2011
bilby Try starting each morning with a positive thought and a Prolagus breakfast. Mar 1, 2011
duckbill "I spend my doleful days in dumps and dolors." Mar 1, 2011