lament
part of speech
verb (lament, laments, lamented, lamenting); noun (a lament, laments)
meaning for a pupil
1) To lament is to show or say strongly that you are very sad or sorry about something, often someone's death. tree →
2) A lament is a sad song, poem or piece of music about loss or death. tree →
3) To lament something is to complain or regret that it happened or is missing. tree →
sense in the lessons
In RE and the Bible, the Book of Lamentations and David's lament for Saul show grief; in literature and music, a lament (like bagpipe laments) expresses sorrow. In formal writing, people lament changes («many lament the loss of the village shop»). Phrases: «lament the loss of», «the late lamented» (who has died, or is gone), «a lament for».
examples
- The villagers lamented the death of their kind old doctor. tree →
- A piper played a lament at the funeral. tree →
- David sang a lament for his friend Jonathan. tree →
- Grandad laments that children don't play outside anymore. tree →
- The poem is a lament for the lost forests. tree →
- Many readers lamented the end of the series. tree →
- All night Charming sighed and lamented. tree →
note
Stress on the second syllable: la-MENT. Noun «lamentation», adjective «lamentable» (very bad, regrettable — formal). Regular verb: lamented. A lament is not a complaint about something small; it is deep sorrow or strong regret.
In the corpora
- that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
- And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah.
- Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city.
- And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,
- And the king lamented for Abner, and said: Should Abner die as a churl dieth?
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «lament» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.