lamentation

Other forms of lamentation

plural

lamentations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lamentation

What does lamentation mean?

lamentation means "a cry of sorrow and grief". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lamentation?

lamentation has 5 syllables: la-men-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for lamentation?

Close synonyms include lament, plaint, wail, mourning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lamentation a common word?

lamentation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.