lamentation
- Noun. The act of lamenting.
- Noun. A sorrowful cry; a lament.
- Noun. Specifically, mourning.
- Noun. lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge.
- Noun. A group of swans.
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