LAMENTATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lamentations mean? 

• LAMENTATIONS (noun)
  The noun LAMENTATIONS has 1 sense:

1. an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah

  Familiarity information: LAMENTATIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAMENTATIONS (noun)

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Meaning:

An Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Lamentations; Lamentations

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Lamentations" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)

 Context examples 

Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through Longbourn House.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was a tearful boy, and broke into such deplorable lamentations, when a cessation of our connexion was hinted at, that we were obliged to keep him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were all drunk, and paid no heed to her cries and lamentations.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The complaints and lamentations which politeness had hitherto restrained, now burst forth universally; and they all agreed again and again how provoking it was to be so disappointed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The weather soon improved enough for those to move who must move; and Mr. Woodhouse having, as usual, tried to persuade his daughter to stay behind with all her children, was obliged to see the whole party set off, and return to his lamentations over the destiny of poor Isabella;—which poor Isabella, passing her life with those she doated on, full of their merits, blind to their faults, and always innocently busy, might have been a model of right feminine happiness.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Georgiana said she dreaded being left alone with Eliza; from her she got neither sympathy in her dejection, support in her fears, nor aid in her preparations; so I bore with her feeble-minded wailings and selfish lamentations as well as I could, and did my best in sewing for her and packing her dresses.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To which pathetic appeal Daisy would answer with a coo, or Demi with a crow, and Meg would put by her lamentations for a maternal revel, which soothed her solitude for the time being.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After joining in general lamentations over the dreadful sequel of this event, which Elizabeth considered as all but certain, and Miss Bennet could not assert to be wholly impossible, the former continued the subject, by saying, But tell me all and everything about it which I have not already heard.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)