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Meaning of "mourning band" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MOURNING BAND

mourning band play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MOURNING BAND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mourning band 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 MOURNING BAND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mourning band in the English dictionary

The definition of mourning band in the dictionary is a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MOURNING BAND

mounting-block
Mounty
moup
mourn
Mourne Mountains
mourner
mournful
mournfully
mournfulness
mourning
mourning cloak
mourning clothes
mourning dove
mourningly
mournival
mousaka
mouse
mouse deer
mouse jockey
mouse pad

WORDS THAT END LIKE MOURNING BAND

band
big band
blues band
boy band
brass band
conduction band
cover band
elastic band
energy band
frequency band
gastric band
jazz band
jug band
marching band
rock band
rubber band
steel band
support band
tax band
tribute band
wedding band

Synonyms and antonyms of mourning band in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mourning band» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MOURNING BAND

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

Translator English - Chinese

哀悼带
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

banda de luto
570 millions of speakers

English

mourning band
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शोक बैंड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفرقة الحداد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

траур группа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

faixa de luto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শোক ব্যান্ড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

brassard de deuil
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Band berkabung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Trauerflor
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

喪章
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

애도 밴드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Band mourning
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

băng tang
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துக்கம் கொண்ட இசைக்குழு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शोक बैंड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yas bandı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

banda di lutto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zespół żałoba
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

траур група
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

banda de doliu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πένθος μπάντα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rou -band
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sorg bandet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sørgebånd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mourning band

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MOURNING BAND»

The term «mourning band» is used very little and occupies the 166.291 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MOURNING BAND» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOURNING BAND»

Discover the use of mourning band in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mourning band and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Dictionary of Fashion History
... the impact of Queen Victoria's widowhood was felt throughout fashionable circles, but after her death in 1901 the rules gradually relaxed, despite the losses of both world wars. Mourning band (M) Period: 17th century. A scarf-like hat-band of ...
Valerie Cumming, C. W. Cunnington, P. E. Cunnington, 2010
2
Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of ...
By 1926, Gertrude Stein could tell Ernest Hemingway "you are all a lost generation" — and he could, with peculiar pride, attach it as an epigraph to his first major novel, like a mourning band or a badge of membership in a stricken fraternity.
Seth Moglen, 2007
3
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
See also Blackwall.—3. Both vbl forms are likewise, from ca. 1880, applied to dirty finger-nails. Hence the low, proletarian c.p., You 're in mourning for the cat!, you have filthy finger-nails: C.20. Cf. mourning-band.— 4. “'Aye, there she is—all in ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
mourning-band . A dirty, esp. a black, edge to a finger-nail: from ca 1880. mourning-coach. horse . 'A tall, solemn woman, dressed in black and many inky feathers': London middle classes': ca 1850–90. Ware. mourning. shirt . A flannel shirt, as ...
Eric Partridge, 2003
5
Death, Bereavement, And Mourning
When a police officer is killed, his or her colleagues wear a black elastic mourning band over their badges. With so many rescue workers dead, the black band became part of police officers' daily uniform. Many New York officers wore those ...
Samuel C. Heilman
6
Mothers in Mourning: With the Essay, Of Amnesty and Its Opposite
... mourning band of suppliants, seeking decent funeral for the seven leaders who fell before Thebes. And, if we agree to accept a case of solitary rebellion, how could we not think of Antigone, who resists Creon simply by performing the funeral ...
‎1998
7
The Key to Culture
As long as one wears mourning the use of the mourning band on one's card is used. When mourning is discarded the use of the black border on one's cards is discontinued. A man need not use a mourning band on his cards of more than an  ...
Paul T. Gilbert, 2006
8
Death, Grief, and Mourning
Any other display of emotion, or indication of one's emotional state (such as wearing a black mourning band on the arm), is no longer normatively accepted behavior. The individual is expected to return to the workaday world quickly, and not to ...
John S. Stephenson, 1985
9
Service Etiquette
Officers wear the band on the left sleeve; enlisted personnel wear it on the right sleeve of the outer garment, halfway between the shoulder and elbow. the mourning band is a strip of black crepe three inches (7.62 centimeters) wide and long ...
Cherlynn Conetsco, Anna Hart, 2009
10
American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial ...
Hose 5.00 1 Crape Bonnet 15.00 $ 142.50 To B. H. Stinemetz, Apr. 18 2 Silk Hats for Coachmen at 8.00 each $ 16.00 Mourning Bands for same 1.00 1 Silk Hat for Capt Robt Lincoln 10.00 Mourning Band for same .75 Apr. 21 1 Blk felt Hat for ...
Heinz Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOURNING BAND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mourning band is used in the context of the following news items.
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​A large mourning band has been installed around the Nicholson …
The large black band has been temporarily put on the Nicholson War Memorial as part of Leek's commemorative events for soldier Basil ... «Leek Post & Times, Jul 15»
2
Douglas County Sheriff's Office Honors Deputy Killed 37 Years Ago
... all Douglas County Sheriff's Office staff members with a visible badge wore a black mourning band across their badge until midnight Monday. «KSTP.com, Jun 15»
3
UT Police mourn Kelley, one of their own
At the UT Police Department, Captain Don Verett wears the mourning band across his badge. "He came here from a career from other law ... «MyFox Austin, Jun 15»
4
K-9s found dead in Davie memorialized by Hialeah police; probes …
As police dogs barked from their kennels at Hialeah police headquarters Thursday, a sergeant wearing a mourning band over his badge ... «Sun Sentinel, Jun 15»
5
ODOT Worker Killed In Accident Mourned By Volunteer Firefighter …
“Just to show respect to him, that's why [the mourning band] is there,” Maramec Fire Chief Allen Fulton said. “Jerald was just a great guy.” «News On 6, Jun 15»
6
Authorities are investigating the deaths of two Hialeah police dogs in …
As police dogs barked from their kennels at Hialeah police headquarters Thursday, a sergeant wearing a mourning band over his badge ... «Sun Sentinel, May 15»
7
Examiner: Firing of second Oakhill guard justified
Witscheber also told the State Journal that he was punished for refusing to wear a mourning band, as suggested by the warden, but Levitan ... «Madison.com, May 15»
8
Fremont Police honor fallen Omaha officer
Police Chief Jeff Elliott has authorized officers to wear a black mourning band across their badges in honor of Omaha Police officer Kerrie ... «Fremont Tribune, May 15»
9
Lt. Higgins 3rd Degree - Hattiesburg Officer Shooting
When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, we wear a black mourning band on our badges… usually for one week. I'm finding myself ... «KATC Lafayette News, May 15»
10
Asotin Police Officer trained under fallen CDA police officer
Asotin Police Officer trained under fallen CDA police officer »Play Video The black band over the top of the badge is called a mourning band. «KLEW, May 15»

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