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bereavements

bereavements is the plural of bereavement.

Meaning of bereavement

Noun

bereavement (countable and uncountable, plural bereavements)

  1. The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
    • I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

Questions about bereavements

What is bereavements the plural of?
Bereavements is the plural of bereavement.

Words near bereavements in the dictionary

  1. bereaval
  2. bereave
  3. bereaved
  4. bereavedness
  5. bereavement
  6. bereavements
  7. bereaven
  8. bereaver
  9. bereavers
  10. bereaves
  11. bereavest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bereavements (page history and authors); bereavement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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