mourn

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7
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10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/mɔɹn/
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/mɔɹn/ · /mɔːn/ · /mo(ː)ɹn/ · /moən/ · /mʊɹn/ · /mʊən/

Definition of mourn

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
    “For two months, she mourned her father's passing.”
    “We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?”
    “Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.”
    “Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.”
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verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
    “For two months, she mourned her father's passing.”
    “We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?”
    “Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.”
    “Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.”
  2. (ambitransitive)To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially.
    “In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.”
  3. (transitive)To utter in a sorrowful manner.
  4. (intransitive)To wear mourning.

noun

  1. (countable, literary, uncountable)Sorrow, grief.
    “Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

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Etymology

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).

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