mourner
/ˈmɔɹnɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
noun
A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.
noun
In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.
noun
Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.
Example Sentences
- "Disuniter of all affection—awful seal to life's nothingness—warning and witness of power and judgment—Death has always enow of terror and sorrow, even when there are many to comfort the mourner, when the path has been smoothed for the sufferer, and life offers all its best and brightest to soothe the survivor; […]"
- "I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight."
- "Looking out the door I see the rain / Fall upon the funeral mourners / Parading in a wake of sad relations / As their shoes fill up with water"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mourner
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɔɹnɚ/
- British English: /ˈmɔːnə/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
hired mourner