mourner.
Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
Meaning & usage
Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.
In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.
Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mourner, mornere, equivalent to mourn + -er.
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