mourn

名词 n. 动词 v.
/mɔːn/    /mɔɹn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Sorrow, grief. countable,literary,uncountable
    — 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
  2. A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). ambitransitive
    — For two months, she mourned her father's passing.
  2. To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially. ambitransitive
    — In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.
  3. To utter in a sorrowful manner. transitive
  4. To wear mourning. intransitive

词形变化

mourns present,singular,third-person mourning participle,present mourned participle,past mourned past morne alternative mourns plural morne alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
词源 2
From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
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