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What is another word for the bereaved?

Pronunciation: [ðə bɪɹˈiːvd] (IPA)

The term "the bereaved" refers to individuals who have recently lost a loved one. There are several other words that can be used to describe this group of people, including mourners, grieving individuals, or those in mourning. Another term commonly used is "the grieving family," which acknowledges that the loss may not be limited to just one person. Other related terms include survivors, who have experienced the loss of a loved one and are now coping with the aftermath, and the soon-to-be bereaved, who are anticipating the loss of a loved one. No matter which synonym is used, it is important to show empathy and support for those who are grieving.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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  • Widows are divided into two classes; the bereaved and the relieved.
    Victor Robinson
  • How deep must be the feeling of the bereaved parent who cannot look on the fair face of his child without recalling a face, once the fairest and the dearest in the world: the shadow of the grave hangs around the infant playfulness of the orphan, and even the hopes of the present must come tinged with something of sadness from the past.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • I think many non-Jews don't realise the tremendous emotional heat that is involved here in the second half of the twentieth century. A heat that derives from the Holocaust. That is to say the destruction, the mass murder of the Jews in Eastern Europe where most of the Jews were. That both the Israelis and the Jews of the United States are the bereaved children of that population who were murdered. And the bond between the Jews of the United States and the people of Israel has the emotional intensity derived from that common bereavement. And that is what gives. I do understand that people resent the power of the pro-Israel lobby in this country [the US], but that power derives from that elemental basic bond of the common bereavement and the horror that is there in the background. Therefore, Jews in the United States do react strongly – and that's what makes this a very powerful lobby, and it is – they do react strongly to anything that seems to them to threaten the connection of the United States in Israel, which is Israel's lifeline. They see this as threatening. This may be an exaggerated fear, but always there is the shadow there of a possible new Holocaust. Israel overrun. The people of Israel massacred again.
    Conor Cruise O'Brien

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