lament
US: /ɫəˈmɛnt/
UK: /lɐmˈɛnt/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
lament /lə'ment/- danh từ
- lời than van, lời rên rỉ
- bài ca ai oán, bài ca bi thảm
- ngoại động từ
- thương xót, xót xa, than khóc
- thương xót, xót xa, than khóc
- nội động từ
- than van, rên rỉ, than khóc, kêu than
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb (formal) to feel or express great sadness or disappointment about sb/sth: [VN] In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside. + She sat alone weeping, lamenting her fate. [also V that, V speech]
+ noun (formal) a song, poem or other expression of great sadness for sb who has died or for sth that has ended: a nostalgic lament for lost love
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 mourn, bemoan, bewail, wail, weep (over), grieve (for or over), keen (over), sorrow (for or over):
A year later, and she is still lamenting the death of her hamster?!
n.
2 lamentation, moaning, mourning; keen, dirge, elegy, knell, Requiem, monody, threnody, thanatopsis, epicedium, Scots and Irish coronach:
Laments for Kitty's late husband were heard throughout the village.
Concise dictionary
laments|lamented|lamentinglə'mentnoun
+a cry of sorrow and grief
+a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
+a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
verb
+express grief verbally
+regret strongly
