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Definition of Mourner
1. Noun. A person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died).
Generic synonyms: Unfortunate, Unfortunate Person
Specialized synonyms: Bearer, Pallbearer, Wailer, Weeper
Derivative terms: Grieve, Lament, Lament, Mourn, Mourn, Sorrow
Definition of Mourner
1. n. One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.
Definition of Mourner
1. Noun. Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mourner
1. one that mourns [n -S] - See also: mourns
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mourner
Literary usage of Mourner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"At the proper moment, the platform placed over the entrance of the royal vault,
gradually descended without any perceptible aid ; the chief mourner sate on ..."
2. The works of Alfred, lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson (1884)
"ON A mourner. NATURE, so far as in her lies, Imitates God, and turns her face To
every land beneath the skies, Counts nothing that she meets with base, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1816)
"The mourner comforted: or, Consoling- Reflections for Parents on the Lass of ...
Address to the mourner" Ihe pious Author observes, " The poignancy of grief ..."
4. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"Assistants to the Chief mourner, fourteen in number. Horse of Honour, ornamented
in very rich trappings, embroidered on crimson velvet, and adorned with ..."
5. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"Uncultivated ; applied to land LLORONAS, sf. pi. Weepers, mourner». ... mourner,
a woman hired to weep and mourn at funerals. ..."
6. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"The prince of Denmark was cheif mourner; the supporters to ... were the dukes of
Somerset and Beaufort: the assistants to the cheif mourner were 16 carls; ..."
7. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"At the proper moment, the platform placed over the entrance of the royal vault,
gradually descended without any perceptible aid ; the chief mourner sate on ..."
8. The works of Alfred, lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson (1884)
"ON A mourner. NATURE, so far as in her lies, Imitates God, and turns her face To
every land beneath the skies, Counts nothing that she meets with base, ..."
9. The Gentleman's Magazine (1816)
"The mourner comforted: or, Consoling- Reflections for Parents on the Lass of ...
Address to the mourner" Ihe pious Author observes, " The poignancy of grief ..."
10. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"Assistants to the Chief mourner, fourteen in number. Horse of Honour, ornamented
in very rich trappings, embroidered on crimson velvet, and adorned with ..."
11. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"Uncultivated ; applied to land LLORONAS, sf. pi. Weepers, mourner». ... mourner,
a woman hired to weep and mourn at funerals. ..."
12. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"The prince of Denmark was cheif mourner; the supporters to ... were the dukes of
Somerset and Beaufort: the assistants to the cheif mourner were 16 carls; ..."
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