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mourners

NOUN

lamenter

Synonyms

STRONGEST

pallbearer

STRONG

griever sorrower wailer weeper

WEAK

bemoaner bereaved person condoler keener repiner

Example Sentences

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Before processing to the cemetery, the priest asked the mourners to believe that the girls -- whose names translate to "faith" and "love" -- were now in a better place and with God.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

In tears as they walked through the village of Baysariyeh, the mourners gathered to remember Khalil, the ninth journalist killed in Lebanon this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Faces in the crowd were filled with gloom and sadness as mourners waited for the Hezbollah-organised ceremony to begin.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Hundreds of mourners followed the cortege from Ms Doherty's parents' home to Holy Family chapel in Ballymagroarty.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

A congregation of mourners with lantern jaws and broken noses.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy