mourned
mourned is the simple past and past participle of mourn.
Meaning of mourn
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.
- 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.
Words formed from mourned
Questions about mourned
- What is mourned the simple past and past participle of?
- Mourned is the simple past and past participle of mourn.
Words near mourned in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mourned (page history and authors); mourn (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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