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mourn
English
Alternative forms
- morne (14th - 15th centuries)
Etymology
From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnan?. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: môrn, IPA(key): /m??n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA(key): /m??n/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: môn, IPA(key): /m??n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA(key): /m??n/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: m?rn, IPA(key): /mo(?)?n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA(key): /m??n/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /mo?n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA(key): /m??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Homophones: morne, mourne; morn (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Verb
mourn (third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
- Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
- (intransitive) To wear mourning.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
mourn (countable and uncountable, plural mourns)
- (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
- A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
See also
Anagrams
- Munro, munro
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mourne
English
Etymology 1
See morne.
Noun
mourne (plural mournes)
- The armed or feruled end of a staff.
- The end of a sheephook to which the hook is attached.
Etymology 2
Verb
mourne (third-person singular simple present mournes, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned or mourn'd)
- Obsolete spelling of mourn
Anagrams
- Munroe, numero
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