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# lament

«lament» in Mova's school dictionary: **to show or say strongly that you are very sad or sorry…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (lament, laments, lamented, lamenting); noun (a lament, laments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To lament is to show or say strongly that you are very sad or sorry about something, often someone's death. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#m1)

2) A lament is a sad song, poem or piece of music about loss or death. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#m2)

3) To lament something is to complain or regret that it happened or is missing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In RE and the Bible, the Book of Lamentations and David's lament for Saul show grief; in literature and music, a lament (like bagpipe laments) expresses sorrow. In formal writing, people lament changes («many lament the loss of the village shop»). Phrases: «lament the loss of», «the late lamented» (who has died, or is gone), «a lament for».

### examples

- The villagers lamented the death of their kind old doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#x1)
- A piper played a lament at the funeral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#x2)
- David sang a lament for his friend Jonathan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#x3)
- Grandad laments that children don't play outside anymore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#x4)
- The poem is a lament for the lost forests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#x5)
- Many readers lamented the end of the series. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#x6)
- All night Charming sighed and lamented. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/#x7)

### note

Stress on the second syllable: la-MENT. Noun «lamentation», adjective «lamentable» (very bad, regrettable — formal). Regular verb: lamented. A lament is not a complaint about something small; it is deep sorrow or strong regret.

### In the corpora

- [that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.380/)
- [And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.721/)
- [Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.812/)
- [And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.19/)
- [And the king lamented for Abner, and said: Should Abner die as a churl dieth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.104/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lament» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lament/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.