- to feel or express sadness for the death or loss of (someone or something)
- (intransitive) to observe the customs of mourning, as by wearing black
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
mourn /mɔrn/USA pronunciation
v.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- to feel or express grief (for): [no object]He still mourns for the old days.[~ + object]mourned her lost youth.
- to grieve or express sadness over the death of (someone): [no object]She still mourns for her son.[~ + object]We barely had time to mourn our dead.
mourn
(môrn, mōrn),USA pronunciation v.i.
v.t.
- to feel or express sorrow or grief.
- to grieve or lament for the dead.
- to show the conventional or usual signs of sorrow over a person's death.
v.t.
- to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted);
deplore. - to grieve or lament over (the dead).
- to utter in a sorrowful manner.
- bef. 900; Middle English mo(u)rnen, Old English murnan; cognate with Old High German mornēn, Old Norse morna, Gothic maurnan
- 1. bewail, bemoan. See grieve.
- 1. laugh, rejoice.
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mourn /mɔːn/ vb
'mourn' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Beatitude
- bemoan
- sorrow
- weep
- bewail
- croon
- deep mourning
- deplore
- grieve
- half mourning
- lament
- Linus
- loss
- loved one
- lugubrious
- moan
- mourner
- mourners' bench
- Mourner's Kaddish
- mournful
- mourning
- mourning band
- Mourning Becomes Electra
- mourning bride
- mourning cloak
- mourning dove
- mourning iris
- mourning warbler
- plaint
- regret
- time
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning, A
- wail