mourner

Other forms of mourner

plural

mourners·

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 mourner

What does mourner mean?

mourner means "a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)".

How many syllables are in mourner?

mourner has 2 syllables: mour-ner. The stress falls on "mour". In IPA it is /ˈmɔɹnɚ/.

What is another word for mourner?

Close synonyms include griever, sorrower, lamenter. 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 mourner a common word?

mourner 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.