mourner

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈmɔɹnɚ/
See all 6 pronunciations
/ˈmɔɹnɚ/ · /ˈmɔːnə/ · /ˈmo(ː)ɹnɚ/ · /ˈmoənə/ · /ˈmʊɹnɚ/ · /ˈmʊənə/

Definition of mourner

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
    “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.”
See all 4 definitions

noun

  1. Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
    “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.”
  2. A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.
  3. In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.
  4. Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English mourner, mornere, equivalent to mourn + -er.

Anagrams of mourner

1 play · some not in Scrabble

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

A single letter you can add to mourner to make another valid word.

Find your best play with mourner

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes mourner, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.