lamentation

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

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