Lament Definition
lə-mĕnt
lamented, lamenting, laments
verb
lamented, lamenting, laments
To feel or express deep sorrow for; mourn or grieve for.
Webster's New World
To regret deeply.
Webster's New World
To feel deep sorrow or express it as by weeping or wailing; mourn; grieve.
Webster's New World
To grieve audibly; wail.
American Heritage
To bewail.
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noun
laments
An outward expression of sorrow; lamentation; wail.
Webster's New World
A literary or musical composition, as an elegy or dirge, mourning some death or calamity.
Webster's New World
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pronoun
Abbreviation of Lamentations.
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Other Word Forms of Lament
Noun
Singular:
lament
Plural:
lamentsOrigin of Lament
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From French lamenter, from Latin lāmentor (“I wail, weep”), from lāmenta (“wailings, laments, moanings”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.
From Wiktionary
Middle English lementen from Old French lamenter from Latin lāmentārī from lāmentum lament
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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