lamentation

«lamentation» in Mova's school dictionary: Loud crying and sad words because of grief or loss — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a lamentation, lamentations; also uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Loud crying and sad words because of grief or loss. tree →

2) (Bible) Lamentations is a book of the Bible: sad poems about the fall of Jerusalem. tree →

sense in the lessons

A formal, old-fashioned word in stories, poems and the Bible: it tells the reader there is deep sorrow, often loud. In The Wind in the Willows Toad breaks into lamentations in his dungeon. Everyday words: crying, wailing.

examples

• There was weeping and lamentation in the city. tree →
• Toad flung himself down in bitter lamentation. tree →
• The lamentations of the mourners filled the church. tree →
• The Book of Lamentations is in the Old Testament. tree →
• Her lamentations over the broken vase went on all day. tree →
• The poem is a lamentation for a lost friend. tree →
• At this story the parents redoubled their lamentations. tree →

note

From the verb «lament» (to mourn) + -ation. Stress: la-men-TAY-shun. Often humorous today for too much complaining.

In the corpora

• And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,
• And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
• And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they made lamentation for him: 'Alas, my brother!'
• Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
• 'And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lamentation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.