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MOURNER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

griever; lamenter; mourner; sorrower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mourner" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mourner"):

bearer; pallbearer (one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral)

wailer (a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries)

weeper (a hired mourner)

Derivation:

mourn (feel sadness)

mourn (observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one)

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