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# mourn

«mourn» in Mova's school dictionary: **to feel and show deep sadness because someone has died** — 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 (mourn, mourns, mourned, mourning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To mourn is to feel and show deep sadness because someone has died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourn/#m1)

2) To mourn something is to feel sad that it is gone or lost: «We mourned the end of the holidays». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourn/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life families mourn when someone dies; there is a funeral and sometimes people wear black. In religious education, different faiths have customs for mourning, like Jewish sitting shiva. In stories a character mourns a lost friend. Phrases: «mourn the death of», «mourn for», «in mourning», «a period of mourning».

### examples

- We all mourned when Grandpa died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourn/#x1)
- The whole country mourned the queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourn/#x2)
- The family wore black to show they were in mourning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourn/#x3)
- The girl mourned for her lost cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourn/#x4)
- Jesus said, «Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourn/#x5)
- Jewish families mourn together for seven days, called shiva. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourn/#x6)
- It is natural to cry when you mourn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourn/#x7)

### note

Regular verb, past «mourned». Noun: mourning, mourner. Homophone: «morning» sounds very similar but «mourning» (sadness) has a «u». Mourning has no time limit; people grieve in different ways.

### In the corpora

- [A Christian funeral gives thanks for a life, comforts those who mourn and commits the person to God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church/10/)
- [The Bible says Christians should «mourn with those who mourn», even for small losses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/16/)
- [Christians believe God comforts those who mourn; Jesus said, «Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer/16/)
- ["Mourn with those who mourn" (Romans 12:15): when someone is sad, comfort comes first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/10/)
- [And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1214/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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