mourn

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   feel sadness

   They mourn for their dead child.

2. 2
   verb

   To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

   For two months, she mourned her father's passing.

3. 3
   noun

   Sorrow, 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 rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle

4. 4
   verb

   observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one

5. 5
   verb

   To utter in a sorrowful manner.

6. 6
   verb

   To wear mourning.

7. 7
   noun

   A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

Etymology

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).