Definitions for mourning

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mourning mourn·ing

Spelling: [mawr-ning, mohr-]

IPA: /ˈmɔr nɪŋ, ˈmoʊr-/

Mourning is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in mourning (gimnnoru).

Definitions for mourning

noun

1. the act of a person who mourns; sorrowing or lamentation.
2. the conventional manifestation of sorrow for a person's death, especially by the wearing of black clothes or a black armband, the hanging of flags at half-mast, etc.
3. the outward symbols of such sorrow, as black garments.
4. the period or interval during which a person grieves or formally expresses grief, as by wearing black garments.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or used in mourning.

verb (used with object)

1. to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
2. to grieve or lament over (the dead).
3. to utter in a sorrowful manner.

verb (used without object)

1. to feel or express sorrow or grief.
2. to grieve or lament for the dead.
3. to show the conventional or usual signs of sorrow over a person's death.

Origin of mourning

before 900; Middle English (noun, adj.); Old English murnung (noun). See mourn, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for mourning

So while mourning the closing of De Robertis, consider that we might someday mourn the bankruptcy of whatever chain replaces it.

Is their condition on earth eminently "the house of mourning?"

The household was filled with mourning, but it was too late.

"And you know we shall be in mourning," said Psyche to her brother.

Soon after Abu Ein died, the Palestinian Authority announced three days of mourning.

A Fish and Wildlife special agent collected the bodies of two birds at the site, a redhead duck and a mourning dove.

Then they marched home and their houses were filled with mourning.

Nellie had been frankly scandalized at the idea of mourning.

Now that the Confucian-inspired mourning period is over, the son is free to embark on his own programs and policies.

The late-November hacking of Sony, perhaps the most vicious episode of its kind, comes at the end of the period of mourning.