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English

Etymology

moan +? -er

Noun

moaner (plural moaners)

1. One who makes a moaning sound.
   • 1997, Nancy Rawles, Love Like Gumbo (page 164)

     Elena was a moaner. Sex and moaning had become synonymous to Grace. She had no trouble conceptualizing sex between any two creatures capable of moaning.

2. (derogatory) One who complains.
   • 1998, Saul W. Gellerman, How People Work

     In any big outfit, including this one, you're going to get some bitchers and some moaners.

Derived terms

• moaner's bench

Anagrams

• Anmore, Armeno-, Mareno, Morane, Morena, Ramone, anomer, enamor, maenor, marone, menora, monera, morena

English

Etymology

From Middle English mone, mane, m?n, (also as mene), from Old English *m?n, *m?n (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-Germanic *main? (“opinion; mind”). Cognate with Old Frisian m?ne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *m?n, *m?n is inferred from Old English m?nan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo?n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophone: mown

Noun

moan (plural moans)

1. a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure

Translations

Verb

moan (third-person singular simple present moans, present participle moaning, simple past and past participle moaned)

1. (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. [from 13th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:

     Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].

   • 1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow

     Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.

2. (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve. [from 14th c.]
3. (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden. [15th-17th c.]

   • which infinitely moans me

4. (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound. [from 18th c.]
5. (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. [from 19th c.]

   ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.

6. (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:complain

Derived terms

• moaner
• moany

Related terms

• bemoan

Translations

See also

• murmur
• protest
• lament

Further reading

• moan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• moan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Amon, Mano, Mona, NOMA, Noam, Oman, Onam, mano, maon, mona, noma

Breton

Alternative forms

• moen

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mu?n (“beautiful”) (compare Welsh mwyn (“mild, gentle”)), from Proto-Celtic *moinis (“treasure, precious object”) (compare Irish maoin (“property, riches”)), from Proto-Indo-European *moynis (compare Latin m?nis (“obliging”), Old English m?ne (“common”)), from *mey- (“to change”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mwã?n/

Adjective

moan

1. thin, slender

   Synonym: tanav

   Antonym: tev

Mutation

Finnish

Noun

moan

1. Genitive singular form of moa.

Anagrams

• Oman, oman