Mourning

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The actions or expressions of one who has suffered a bereavement.
  • n. Conventional outward signs of grief for the dead, such as a black armband or black clothes.
  • n. The period during which a death is mourned.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of mourn.
  • n. The act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation.
  • n. Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death.
  • n. The traditional clothes worn by those who mourn (in Western societies, typically coloured black).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
  • n. Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.
  • adj. Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
  • adj. Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of lamenting or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
  • n. The outward tokens or signs of sorrow for the dead, such as the draping of buildings in giving expression to public sorrow, the wearing of garments of a particular color, the use of black-bordered handkerchiefs, black-edged writing-paper and visiting-cards, etc.
  • Having to do with mourning for the dead; of such kind as is used in mourning for the dead: as, a mourning garment; a mourning hat-band.
  • n. See mourn.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
  • adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation
  • n. state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
  • Equivalent
    sorrowful   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lamentation    sorrow    grieving    sorrowing    lamenting   
    Verb Stem
    mourn   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adorning    corning    forewarning    horning    morning    warning