mourner

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɔːnə/    美 /ˈmɔɹnɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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 the survivor; […]
  2. A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.
  3. In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.
  4. Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.

词形变化

mourners plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hired mourner mourneress

词源

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