Meaning

4 senses
  1. Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.

    Trauernder, Trauernde

    пла́кальщикplákalʹščik

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

  2. A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.

  3. In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.

  4. Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. There were no mourners.

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  2. Mourners wear black at funerals.

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  3. Tens of thousands of mourners attended Matoub's funeral in his native village.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness:

Origin

From Middle English mourner, mornere, equivalent to mourn + -er.

From Middle English mourner, mornere, equivalent to mourn + -er.

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Forms

plural: mourners
Singularmourner
Pluralmourners

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedmourn
Derivedmourneress

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mourner — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto