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Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
Marie de France

Meaning of "lamentation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LAMENTATION

lamentation  [ˌlæmɛnˈteɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAMENTATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lamentation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LAMENTATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

lamentation

Lament

A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning.

Definition of lamentation in the English dictionary

The definition of lamentation in the dictionary is a lament; expression of sorrow. Other definition of lamentation is the act of lamenting.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LAMENTATION


accreditation
əˌkrɛdɪˈteɪʃən
adaptation
ˌædəpˈteɪʃən
alimentation
ˌælɪmɛnˈteɪʃən
citation
saɪˈteɪʃən
consultation
ˌkɒnsəlˈteɪʃən
documentation
ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən
excitation
ˌɛksɪˈteɪʃən
hesitation
ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən
implementation
ˌɪmplɪmenˈteɪʃən
interpretation
ɪnˌtɜːprɪˈteɪʃən
invitation
ˌɪnvɪˈteɪʃən
limitation
ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃən
meditation
ˌmɛdɪˈteɪʃən
orientation
ˌɔːrɪɛnˈteɪʃən
presentation
ˌprɛzənˈteɪʃən
rehabilitation
ˌriːəˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən
representation
ˌrɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃən
reputation
ˌrɛpjʊˈteɪʃən
rotation
rəʊˈteɪʃən
transportation
ˌtrænspɔːˈteɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LAMENTATION

lamellibranchiate
lamellicorn
lamelliform
lamellirostral
lamellirostrate
lamellose
lamellosity
lamely
lameness
lament
lamentable
lamentableness
lamentably
Lamentations
lamented
lamentedly
lamenter
lamentingly
Lamerie
lamestream

WORDS THAT END LIKE LAMENTATION

action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
duration
education
evaluation
federation
formation
foundation
generation

Synonyms and antonyms of lamentation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LAMENTATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «lamentation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of lamentation

Translation of «lamentation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LAMENTATION

Find out the translation of lamentation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lamentation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lamentation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

哀歌
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lamentación
570 millions of speakers

English

lamentation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विलाप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرثاء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

плач
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lamentação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিলাপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lamentation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meratap
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Klage
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

哀歌
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

통곡
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tangis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự rên rỉ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புலம்பலும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विलाप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ağıt
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lament
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

плач
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lamentare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θρήνος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klaaglied
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

jämmer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

jammer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lamentation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAMENTATION»

The term «lamentation» is regularly used and occupies the 80.662 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LAMENTATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lamentation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lamentation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lamentation

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2 QUOTES WITH «LAMENTATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word lamentation.
1
Marie de France
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
2
John Thorn
There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAMENTATION»

Discover the use of lamentation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lamentation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Truth and Lamentation: Stories and Poems on the Holocaust
The stories and poems in Truth and Lamentation, written during and after the Holocaust, reveal the human faces hidden behind the all-too-familiar statistics of the event.
Milton Teichman, Sharon Leder, 1994
2
Divine Metaphors in Selected Hebrew Psalms of Lamentation
In this book, Alec Basson examines the divine metaphors in a selection of biblical Hebrew Psalms of Lamentation from a cognitive-anthropological perspective.
Alec Basson, 2006
3
Lamentation
This remarkable first novel from an award-winning short fiction writer will take readers away to a new world – an Earth so far in the distant future that our time is not even a memory; a world where magick is commonplace and great areas ...
Ken Scholes, 2009
4
Lamentation and Modernity in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture
Saunders analyzes the ideological uses of loss in literary, philosophical, and social texts from the late 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of women's lament traditions and includes philosophical texts by Nietzsche, Heidegger, and ...
Rebecca Saunders, 2007
5
Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation
While Konoha is aware that he will soon be losing his book-eating club president when she ventures off to college, a new relationship blossoms between him and the once standoffish Kotobuki.
Mizuki Nomura, 2012
6
Adagio and Lamentation
In this moving collection, she often goes back in time, to the days when her family lived in (and escaped from) Hitler's Europe.
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, 2010
7
Lamentation as History: Narratives by Koreans in Japan, ...
This book examines narratives by and about the Koreans in Japan from the mid-1960s through 2000.
Melissa L. Wender, 2005
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The Goblet of Lamentation-Adonai Java
A celestial prowess engaged the world while bringing the ancient and the contemporary world in contact in a fierce and overwhelming showdown when a part of the celestial world seeks to prove a freewill worthy of rejoining the heavens after ...
Ola De Labaro, 2011
9
The Sixth Lamentation
'Brodrick keeps the story going at a cracking pace, flitting back and forth between its various elements, characters and eras with timing so expert the reader is compelled to keep turning the pages' Time Out
William Brodrick, 2010
10
For Us the Living: Lamentation in Euripides' "Ion".
The character of Creusa in Euripides' Ion is rarely examined by scholars.
C. L. Wilson, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAMENTATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lamentation is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Ugwuanyi pledges to address injustice, imbalance for a stable …
“In infrastructural development, allocation to our zone has been dismally low and disgraceful”, he stated in apparent lamentation of the said ... «DailyPost Nigeria, Jul 15»
2
The internet is not a single entity - it's a whole new way of living
Not that this entails bland even-handedness: there is much lamentation here, albeit a wry lamentation that avoids the hectoring exhortation to ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
3
Ratatat – Magnifique
There are Hawaiian-inspired steel slide guitar leads on “Supreme,” lamentation-filled country guitar on their cover of Springwater's “I Will ... «mxdwn.com, Jul 15»
4
Displaced Iranian artist re-creates her heritage in exhibit in Princeton
Lamentation,” oil on gesso panel, seems of a similar ilk, with four women in burkas, one of which is blue. Behind them, a car is in flame, and 10 ... «Newsworks.org, Jul 15»
5
Chatter: Trial By Un-Juried
But the same readers went'st forth in lamentation over our choice of headline (“Second Helping” was the print headline but for online we went ... «Washington City Paper, Jul 15»
6
Structure in Revelation 18
A long list of the wares of the city slows down the merchants' lamentation (vv. 12-14). Putting these details together, we find this overall pattern:. «First Things, Jul 15»
7
Shower of artistry
'Engu nee sakhe,' with which the performance began, epitomised Arjuna's lamentation about missing Krishna, who had renounced the world ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
8
'Suicide Squad' trailer debuts: Let the judgement begin!
... is one of my favorite graphic novels. Seeing the imagery of those pages on the screen has turned my former lamentation into schoolgirl glee. «St. George Daily Spectrum, Jul 15»
9
What MPs will be reading this summer: Paul Flynn, Boris Johnson …
... among them the highly anticipated Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman, Lamentation by C J Samson, The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton, The ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
10
When Life Cannot Go On As Normal
The was no space for lamentation, no words of comfort, and no cries of justice. It was all calls for stricter gun laws, better mental health care ... «Patheos, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Lamentation [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/lamentation>. Apr 2024 ».
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