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# mourner

«mourner» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who feels or shows sadness because someone has…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a mourner, mourners)

### meaning for a pupil

A person who feels or shows sadness because someone has died, especially a person at a funeral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourner/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and news mourners gather at a funeral, wear dark clothes and lay flowers. The word helps a reader see a sad, quiet scene. Linked words: mourn, mourning, grief.

### examples

- Hundreds of mourners came to the funeral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourner/#x1)
- The mourners stood quietly by the grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourner/#x2)
- A mourner laid a bunch of white flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourner/#x3)
- The church was full of mourners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourner/#x4)
- Mourners shared happy memories of their grandad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourner/#x5)
- The mourners walked slowly behind the coffin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourner/#x6)
- Here the young chief mourner came to receive him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mourner/#x7)

### note

From mourn + -er. Do not mix up with «morning» (early in the day): «mourning» means grieving. A mourner is not paid; «professional mourners» in some old customs were.

### Trees and pragmatics

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