mourner

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mourner

/ˈmɔɹnɚ/ US
/ˈmɔːnə/ UK
/ˈmo(ː)ɹnɚ/
/ˈmoənə/
/ˈmʊɹnɚ/
/ˈmʊənə/

Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)

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From Middle English mourner, mornere, equivalent to mourn + -er.

noun mourners

Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns. 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 th
A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement. 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
In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.
Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related families Tityridae and Tyrannidae.

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noun someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness

Kiswahili	mfiwa, mwombolezaji
Deutsch	Trauernder, Trauernde
Русский	пла́кальщик plákalʹščik

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@misc{mourner_2026,
  title = {mourner},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mourner},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}