mourning
pronunciation
How to pronounce mourning in British English:
UK [ˈmɔːnɪŋ]
How to pronounce mourning in American English:
US [ˈmɔːrnɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
- the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
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- Adjective:
- sorrowful through loss or deprivation
Word Origin
- mourning (n.)
- Old English murnung "complaint, grief," verbal noun from mourn (v.).
Example
- 1. Cambodia said it would observe a week of official mourning .
- 2. Communal mourning after a national tragedy is deep but transient .
- 3. Indeed the mourning ceremonies throughout china have generally avoided overblown rhetoric .
- 4. He is nostalgic for the austro-hungarian and ottoman empires and in deep mourning for the british one .
- 5. Tonga will now be a sea of mourning as subjects don black sashes wrapped around bark cloth .