Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To feel or express grief or sorrow. See Synonyms at grieve.
- v. To show grief for a death by conventional signs, as by wearing black clothes.
- v. To make a low, indistinct, mournful sound. Used especially of a dove.
- v. To feel or express deep regret for: mourned the wasted years.
- v. To grieve over (someone who has died).
- v. To utter sorrowfully.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To express grief or sorrow; grieve; be sorrowful; lament.
- To display the appearance of grief; wear the customary habiliments of sorrow.
- Synonyms Grieve, etc. See lament, v. i.
- To grieve for; lament; bewail; deplore.
- To convey or express grief for.
- Sorrowful.
- n. Sorrow.
- To have a kind of malignant glanders: said of a horse, and allusively of persons, in the phrase to mourn of the chine or mourning of the chine. Compare to mose in the chine (under mose), and see mourner.
Wiktionary
- v. To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
- n. now literary Sorrow, grief.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.
- v. To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
- v. To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.
- v. To utter in a mournful manner or voice.
WordNet 3.0
- v. feel sadness
- v. observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one
Etymologies
- Old English murnan, cognate with French morne ("gloomy"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English mournen, from Old English murnan; see (s)mer-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To mourn is to express regret and he regrets nothing.”
“To mourn is to (1) feel or express grief or sorrow; (2) to show the customarysigns of grief for a death, to wear mourning clothes; (3) to murmur mournfully; (1) to feel or express grief or sorrow for.”
“WHEREAS, the people of Wisconsin mourn the death of Gunnery Sergeant Richard W. Fischer; and”
“What he had before said he would do (ch.viii. 8) is here repeated, that he would make the land melt and tremble, and all that dwell therein mourn, that the judgment should rise up wholly like a flood, and the country should be drowned, and laid under water, as by the flood of Egypt, v. 5.”
“What I do mourn is what we lose when by official policy or official neglect we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget that best sense of ourselves, that which is our greatest strength-that we are different and better than our enemies, that we fight for an idea, not a tribe, not a land, not a king, not a twisted interpretation of an ancient religion, but for an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights.”
“(Hebrew: mitsrssyim -- "Egypt") mourn, that is an indication in what high esteem he was held, both as a prince in his own right as well as the father of Joseph.”
“Yea," is thy word to me with the tongue: say it to me with thy mind, and with the word mourn heavily, that thou mayest have continual cheerfulness.”
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
“Hilary: Those that mourn, that is, not loss of kindred, affronts, or losses, but who weep for past sins.”
“So, OK, we don't necessarily need to "mourn" our possessions.”
“She broke into a relieved smile to discover I was a virtuous widow and not a disreputable single mother, as I was, and passed the news around, so that the rest of the vacation allowed me to "mourn" while basking in benevolent glances.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mourn’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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Verbages
puddle, kowtow, tessellate, defalcate, embezzle, enkindle, ablate, frivol, moonlight, tongue-tie, gobble, pettifog and 58 more...
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Not with a bang...
Whimpering, wailing words...
wheeple, whimper, whinge, whine, mewl, pule, moan, sniffle, snivel, weep, lament, mourn and 16 more...
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Holli
Cancer, Mercury, water, moon, dark, emotion, nostalgia, angst, brooding, isolation, shadow, corner and 145 more...
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
mace, macintosh, madras, magenta, magic 8 ball, magma, mahogany, maiden, mail, mainsail, maize, malachite and 169 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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All About The Phantom of the Opera
Words that have to do with The Phantom of the Opera.
Erik, Adelaide, rose, love, forsaken, mourn, loss, Christine, opera, music, rage
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memento mori
macabre, morbid, ossuaries, kirkyard, corpse, catacombs, necropolis, crypt, relic, mausoleum, mourn, epitaphs and 20 more...
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Tunie: And the Band Played Waltzing M...
I used to sing this as a lullaby to my spawn—till said spawn grew big enough to understand the words, and asked me to sing something else.
Written by Eric Bogle, c. 1971.
...billabong, ghosts, no one, fewer, the call, question, what are they mar..., forgotten war, forgotten, sore, stiff, bent and 66 more...
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R/W Masters List #1
Newsweek Article
animated, fuzzy, stall, amid, array, fair, nostalgia, poignant, plot, abundant, cauliflower, dahlias and 33 more...
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