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Meaning of Mourner | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈmɔɹnɚ

Definitions

  1. Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
  2. Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.

Equivalents

العربية النادب
Bosanski tužbalica
Suomi surija
Hrvatski tužbalica
ქართული ჭირისუფალი
Polski żałobnik
Русский пла́кальщик
Српски tužbalica
Kiswahili mfiwa mwombolezaji

Examples

“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; […]”
“I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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