moan
noun/məʊn/
/məʊn/
- [countable] a long deep sound, usually made because you are unhappy or suffering or are experiencing sexual pleasure synonym groan
- a low moan of despair/anguish
- He staggered about ten yards and fell down with a moan.
- a moan of pleasure/pain
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- faint
- little
- low
- …
- emit
- give
- let out
- …
- come from somebody/somebody’s mouth
- escape somebody/somebody’s mouth
- with a moan
- moan of
- the moan of the wind
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- [countable] (informal) a complaint about something
- We had a good moan about work.
- His letters are full of the usual moans and groans.
- [singular] (literary) a long deep sound, especially the sound that is made by the wind
- She lay listening to the moan of the wind in the trees behind the house.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘complaint ’or‘ lamentation’): of unknown origin.
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