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M0424200 (môrn)v. mourned, mourn·ing, mourns v.intr.1. To feel or express grief or sorrow. See Synonyms at grieve.2. To show grief for a death by conventional signs, as by wearing black clothes.3. To make a low, indistinct, mournful sound. Used especially of a dove.v.tr.1. To feel or express deep regret for: mourned the wasted years.2. To grieve over (someone who has died).3. To utter sorrowfully.

[Middle English mornen, from Old English murnan, to be anxious, care about, yearn, mourn; see (s)mer- in Indo-European roots.]

mourn′er n.mourn′ing·ly adv.

mourner

(ˈmɔːnə) n1. a person who mourns, esp at a funeral2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) (at US revivalist meetings) a person who repents publicly

mourn•er

(ˈmɔr nər, ˈmoʊr-)

n. 1. a person who mourns. 2. a person who attends a funeral to mourn for the deceased. [1350–1400]

Thesaurus

Noun

mourner - a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)griever, lamenter, sorrowerunfortunate, unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortunepallbearer, bearer - one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeralwailer - a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched criesweeper - a hired mourner

Translations

哀悼者

mourn

(moːn) verb to have or show great sorrow eg for a person who has died. She mourned (for) her dead son.哀痛ˈmourner nounThe mourners stood round the graveside.哀悼者ˈmournful adjective feeling or showing sorrow. a mournful expression.悲哀的ˈmournfully adverb悲哀地ˈmourning noun1. grief shown eg because of someone's death. 哀悼2. black or dark-coloured clothes suitable for a mourner. She was wearing mourning.丧服

Mourner

(Russian, voplenitsa, placheia, plakal’shchitsa), a woman who performs lamentations. In traditional Russian folk art, weeping and lamentation were an essential element in the ritual of wedding or funeral rites and also in seeing off recruits. Among mourners living in the second half of the 19th century, I. A. Fedosova was outstanding because of her talent and the social content of her laments. Her laments were used by N. A. Nekrasov in the narrative poem Who Is Happy in Russia? M. Gorky wrote about her in the novel The Life of Klim Samgin and in the sketch “The Mourner.” With the disappearance of religious rites, the art of the mourner is also gradually disappearing. In the Soviet period, story-laments were created, dedicated to the memory of V. I. Lenin (for example, “Stony Moscow Wept” by M. S. Kriukova).

REFERENCES

Barsov, E. V. Prichitaniia Severnogo kraia, vols. 1-3. Moscow, 1872-86.
Russkie plachi (Prichitaniia). Edited by G. S. Vinogradov. Moscow-Leningrad, 1937.
Prichitaniia. Text prepared by B. E. Chistova and K. V. Chistov. Leningrad, 1960.
Russkaia narodno-bytovaia lirika: Prichitaniia Severa. Written down by V. G. Bazanov and A. P. Razumova. Introductory article and commentary by V. G. Bazanov. Moscow-Leningrad, 1962.

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noun a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)

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