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A mourner is someone at a funeral, there because a person has died. Often it means the family and close friends — the people whose grief is the reason for the day — but it can also mean anyone who comes to sit, to bow, to walk with the family. The word comes straight from mourn, to feel that deep sadness after a death, plus -er, a person who does it. In English the mourners are the people in black, the people in the cars, the people by the grave. Though actually, you can call someone a mourner even a little away from the funeral itself, if they are living inside that grief; but the picture the word usually paints is the funeral. In older stories, and in some real customs, a mourner could even be a person paid to weep. It never means the person who has died.
弔唁者、送葬的人
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mournernoun/ˈmɔɹnɚ/
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Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
- Disuniter of all affection—awful seal to life's nothingness—warning and witness of power and judgment—Death has always enow of terror and sorrow, even when there are many to comfort the mourner, when the path has been smoothed for the sufferer, and life offers all its best and brightest to soothe the survivor; […]
- I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.
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A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.
- Looking out the door I see the rain / Fall upon the funeral mourners / Parading in a wake of sad relations / As their shoes fill up with water
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In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.
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Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。