lament
noun/ləˈment/
/ləˈment/
(formal)- a song, poem, etc. in which you express very sad feelings about somebody who has died or about something that has ended
- a nostalgic lament for lost love
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’.
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