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mourner

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Death
mourn·er /ˈmɔːnə $ ˈmɔːrnər/ noun [countable]  MXsomeone who attends a funeral 吊唁者,哀悼者
Examples from the Corpus
mournerThe Liverpool mourners were most fortunate than most.The crowd of mourners at his funeral bore witness to the affection and respect Stanley had earned through his life and work.Earlier in the same church hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of another victim, 52-year-old James McKenna.Unlike the other mourners, they were wearing Earnhardt jackets and hats.But the poem appears to commend long-suffering endurance and to suggest that mourners may be silently visited by Divine Grace.He has seen the mourners, his landlords, only twice.The mourners stood in a circle on the sand, three hundred yards down from the parking lot.Reggie Cleveland told mourners at the memorial in the Cheyenne Civic Center.
mourn·er nounChineseSyllable
who someone a attends Corpus funeral


mourner
mourner /ˈmɔːnə $ ˈmɔːrnər/ noun [countable]
someone who attends a funeral


mourn·erBrE /ˈmɔːnə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmɔːrnər/ 🔊 nouna person who attends a funeral, especially a friend or a relative of the dead person 吊唁者;哀悼者