What is another word for mourners?

Pronunciation: [mˈɔːnəz] (IPA)

"Mourners" are those who grieve for a loved one who has passed away. They may be family members, friends, or acquaintances of the deceased. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to describe mourners, including "bereaved," "grievers," "mournfuls," "sympathizers," and "lamenters." Each of these words has a slightly different connotation and may be used to describe specific groups of mourners or different stages of the grieving process. Regardless of the specific term used, all mourners have one thing in common: a deep sense of loss and sadness for someone they cared about deeply.

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Usage examples for Mourners

So when Calliope come home from the funeral-she'd rode alone with the little boy for mourners-she just went to work an' lived for that child.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
As the assembly gathered round the family tomb of the Castletons, Mr Groocock, happening to look up, observed among the crowd, standing directly opposite where the chief mourners were collected, a dark bearded man, whose eye was fixed on Sir Ralph, his countenance exhibiting a peculiarly evil expression.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston
There were several real mourners in the crowd.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston

Famous quotes with Mourners

  • Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
    W. H. Auden
  • A woman who writes feels too much, those trances and portents! As if cycles and children and islands weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips and vegetables were never enough. She thinks she can warm the stars. A writer is essentially a spy. Dear love, I am that girl.
    Anne Sexton
  • Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.
    Henry David Thoreau
  • Most musical of mourners, weep again!
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Out whole civilization was a cemetery where Jesus Christ and Socrates, Mozart and Haydn, Dante and Goethe were but indecipherable names on moldering stones; and the mourners who stood round affecting a pretense of sorrow would give much to believe in these inscriptions which once were holy, or at least to utter one heart-felt word of grief and despair about this world that is no more. And nothing was left them but the embarrassed grimaces of a company round a grave.
    Hermann Hesse

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