Definitions for moan

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moan moan

Spelling: [mohn]

IPA: /moʊn/

Moan is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in moan (amno).

Definitions for moan

noun

1. a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
2. any similar sound:
3. complaint or lamentation.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter (something) inarticulately or pitifully, as if in lamentation:
2. to lament or bemoan:

verb (used without object)

1. to utter moans, as of pain or grief.
2. (of the wind, sea, trees, etc.) to make any sound suggestive of such moans:

Origin of moan

1175-1225; Middle English mone, man(e) (noun), Old English *mān, inferred from its derivative mǣnan to mourn

Examples for moan

Before she had laughed at the weird complaining; now it sounded like a moan of misery.

Not a sound was heard but the moan of an occasional gust of wind.

The wood followed us with a moan which was gathering to a roar.

And the best his Republican opponents can do is moan about Benghazi.

Copper mining is the most toxic form of metal mining in the United States, but you can only moan and groan about it so much.

But, generally speaking, businesses scream and moan, react and innovate, and wind up in a better place.

As much as customers love to moan about small, uncomfortable seats, the demand for them is higher than ever.

Thereupon Macquart, seeing that he was about to be paid, began to moan.

The low, dull, moan of the Sabbath siren lulls you into the 25-hour respite from modernity.

Let her moan and groan and sigh away there—what did it matter!