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moirologist

moirologist noun: a professional mourner.

moirologist: a professional mourner
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Noun

moirologist (plural moirologists)

  1. (rare) A professional mourner.
    • The moirologists will sing of the loneliness of the living, of the horrors of death, of the black earth, and the cold dreary frozen Hades; and, in the strange language of hyperbole, in which they love to indulge, they will wonder how the sun could venture to shine on so lamentable a scene as the...1886, “The Greek Islanders”, in The Quarterly Review, Volume 163, page 215, July & October 1886
    • Even as recently as the early 1900s, there was a report of a moirologists' strike in Paris.2009 May 20, Samantha Weaver, “Strange But True”, in The Mountain Eagle
    Synonyms:
    wailer

Synonyms of moirologist

Forms of moirologist

pluralmoirologists

Origin of moirologist

From Ancient Greek μοῖρα (moîra, “fate”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration”).

Questions about moirologist

What does moirologist mean?
Moirologist means a professional mourner.
What part of speech is moirologist?
Moirologist is a noun.
What is the plural of moirologist?
The plural of moirologist is moirologists.

Words near moirologist in the dictionary

  1. moires
  2. moirette
  3. moirettes
  4. moirocaust
  5. moirocausts
  6. moirologist
  7. moirologists
  8. Moirs
  9. moiré
  10. moiré pattern
  11. moiré patterns

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