Usually means: Expression of grief or sorrow.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word lament:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lament: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lament: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lament: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lament: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lament: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lament, lament: Wordnik
  7. lament: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lament, lament: Wiktionary
  9. lament: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lament: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lament: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lament, lament: Dictionary.com
  13. lament: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Lament (Frank Morgan album), Lament (I've album), Lament (Resurrection Band album), Lament (Ultravox album), Lament (Ultravox song), Lament (band), Lament (disambiguation), Lament (film), Lament: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lament: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lament: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lament: Rhymezone
  18. lament: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lament: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. lament: Free Dictionary
  21. lament: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lament: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. lament: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LAMENT: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lament: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lament: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lament: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lament: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lament: The Folk File
  2. lament: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See lamented as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
noun:  A song expressing grief.
verb:  (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
verb:  (transitive) To express great sorrow or regret over; to bewail.

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