noun [U]
1 sadness that you show and feel because sb has died:
The government announced a day of national mourning for the victims. * She was still in mourning for her husband.
2 clothes that people wear to show their sadness at sb's death:
The queen was dressed in mourning.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for mourning is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does mourning appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — mourning appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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