mourn
/mɔːn/US/mɔɹn/
mourn verb: to express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
Verb
mourn (third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned)
- To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
- For two months, she mourned her father's passing.
- She mourned the loss of her independence.
- To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially.
- In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.
- To utter in a sorrowful manner.
- To wear mourning.
Noun
mourn (countable and uncountable, plural mourns)
- Sorrow, grief.
- Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II
- Synonyms:
- dejection, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness
- A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
mourn meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mourn in Hindi
- शोक मनाते हैं, शोक व्यक्त करना
mourn in Tamil
- துக்கம் அனுசரி
mourn in Marathi
- शोक करण्यासाठी, शोक व्यक्त करणे
mourn in Urdu
- ماتم کرنا, پچھتانا, سوگ کرنا, سوگ منانا
More languagesFewer languages
- mourn in Bengali
- শোক করা śōk kora
- mourn in Malayalam
- ദുഃഖിക്കുക duḥkhikkuka, പുലമ്പുക pulampuka
- mourn in Kannada
- ಶೋಕಿಸು, ದುಃಖಿಸು, ಮರುಗು, ಪೊದಕುಳಿಗೊಳ್
- mourn in Punjabi
- ਸੋਗ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- mourn in Gujarati
- શોક વ્યક્ત કરવો, શોક કરવા માટે
- mourn in Odia
- ଶୋକ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
- mourn in Sanskrit
- कृप् kṛp
- mourn in Nepali
- शोक गर्नाका निम्ति
- mourn in Arabic
- نَدَبَ nadaba
- mourn in Malay
- berkabung
- mourn in Persian
- سوگواری کردن sugvâri kardan
- mourn in Vietnamese
- thương tiếc, xót xa
- Dzongkha
- མྱ་ངན་འབད་བ mya ngan 'bad ba
Examples of mourn in a sentence
- We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies...
- Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 23:2:
- Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nightmare:
Synonyms of mourn
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Forms of mourn
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | mourns |
| present participle | mourning |
| past participle | mourned |
| past | mourned |
| alternative form | morne |
| Noun | |
| plural | mourns |
Origin of mourn
From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
Words formed from mourn
Words that rhyme with mourn
Questions about mourn
- What does mourn mean?
- Mourn means to express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
- What is mourn in Hindi?
- Mourn in Hindi is शोक मनाते हैं, शोक व्यक्त करना. See Mourn meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use mourn in a sentence?
- We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
- What part of speech is mourn?
- Mourn can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce mourn?
- Mourn is pronounced /mɔɹn/ (US).
- What is the past tense of mourn?
- The past tense of mourn is mourned.
Words near mourn in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mourn (page history and authors); mourn (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mourn (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mourn (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mourn (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ദുഃഖിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); mourn (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mourn (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mourn (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mourn (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कृप् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); mourn (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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