mourn Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb feel sadness
    • She is mourning her dead child
  2. verb observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one

WordNet

Mourn intransitive verb
Etymology
AS. murnan; akin to OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. maúrnan.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Mourned ; present participle & verbal noun Mourning
Definitions
  1. To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.
    Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen. xxiii. 2.
  2. To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
    We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood? Shak.
    Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year. Pope.
Mourn transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.
    As if he mourned his rival's ill success. Addison.
    And looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return. Emerson.
  2. To utter in a mournful manner or voice.
    The lovelorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. Milton.
    Syn. -- See Deplore.

Webster 1913