Lamentation Definition

lămən-tāshən

lamentations

noun

lamentations

The act of lamenting; outward expression of grief; esp., a weeping or wailing.

Webster's New World

A lament.

American Heritage

Specifically, mourning.

Wiktionary

Lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge.

Wiktionary

A group of swans.

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Other Word Forms of Lamentation

Singular:

lamentation

Plural:

recorded since 1375, from Latin lamentatio (“wailing, moaning, weeping”), from the deponent verb lāmentor, from lāmentum (“wail; wailing”), itself from a Proto-Indo-European *la- (“to shout, cry”), presumed ultimately imitative. Replaced Old English cwiþan. Lament is a 16th-century back-formation.

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