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WAILER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wailer mean?
• WAILER (noun)
The noun WAILER has 1 sense:
1. a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries
Familiarity information: WAILER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("wailer" is a kind of...):
griever; lamenter; mourner; sorrower (a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died))
speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))
Derivation:
wail (emit long loud cries)
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