/mɔɹn/, /mɔːn/, /mo(ː)ɹn/
OriginFrom Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
- ambitransitiveTo express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
“For two months, she mourned her father's passing.”
“We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?”
“Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.”
- transitiveTo utter in a sorrowful manner.
- intransitiveTo wear mourning.
- countable, literary, uncountableSorrow, grief.
“Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydyng”
- countable, uncountableA ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
Formsmourns(present, singular, third-person) · mourning(participle, present) · mourned(participle, past) · mourned(past) · morne(alternative) · mourns(plural)