mourner
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈmɔrnər/
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doliente
- The church was filled with mourners who gathered to honor the beloved community leader.
- mourners at a funeral
- comfort the mourners
- mourners who blamed
I was lying before once, while we sat quiet as mourners on the front porch.
- I was lying before once, while we sat quiet as mourners on the front porch.
- When we're with mourners, we feel sad and fear can do this as well.
- So the the headlines the next day was man shot at a funeral, funeral mourner shot.
Examples
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Many hours for the mourners to remember their dead.
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The grieving family sets a banquet for the mourners, thanking the guests (xie ke).
Academic text (1998) -
Many vehicles, numerous mourners on foot.
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There were no flowers and no mourners.
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However, the attention is not for the man being laid to rest, but rather, for one of the mourners.
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After a moment's respectful delay, the mourners began gathering themselves to leave the church.
Fiction book (1991) -
The funerals, which will be held tomorrow in Jerusalem... are expected to draw tens of thousands of mourners.
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The graveside service has just ended, and the mourners are beginning to disperse.
Fiction book (1995) -
On the veranda of the gracious home, mourners pay their respects to the family.
Fiction book (1992) -
At the cemetery, the mourners stood bareheaded, the sun glinting off their hair.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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6.1
A person who often sheds tears, for example at sad movies
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7.8
A person who has lost someone they loved to death
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7.2
A person who feels deep sadness after someone close dies
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7.9
A person who cries loudly for a long time to show they are very sad, often at funerals
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9.9
A person who loudly cries and sings at a funeral
A person who feels deep sadness after losing someone
A person whose close family member or friend has died
A person who shows sadness at a funeral or after a death
A person paid to cry at funerals
A person who cries easily or often
Antonyms
How Grieving
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mourner comes from the simple verb mourn, which means 'feel grief' or 'be sad'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture someone quietly 'moaning' with sadness at a funeral, because a mourner is a person who shows or feels that grief.