moan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mōn
ipa: /məʊn/
enpr: mōn
ipa: /moʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: mown
Forms: form: moans
form: moaning
form: moaned
form: moaned
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: moan
form: moan
form: moaned
form: moan
form: moanest
form: moaned
form: moanedst
form: moans
form: moaneth
form: moaned
form: moan
form: moaned
form: moan
form: moaned
form: moan
form: -
form: moaning
form: moaned
Etymology: From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō (“opinion; mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mēne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *mān, *mǣn is inferred from Old English mǣnan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.
Senses: examples: text: Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: 1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow
Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
glosses: To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
synonyms: word: lament
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
glosses: To grieve.
examples: text: She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.
text: They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
glosses: To make a moan or similar sound.
examples: text: ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
glosses: To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
synonyms: word: whine
word: beef
word: bellyache
word: bemoan
word: bitch
word: bleat
word: carp
word: chunter
word: complain
word: crab
word: croak
word: dump on
word: frine
word: girn
word: give out
word: grumble
word: grotch
word: grouse
word: grouch
word: grump
word: gruntle
word: gripe
word: harp
word: inveigh
word: kvetch
word: latrate
word: make a stink
word: murmur
word: mutter
word: moan
word: nag
word: nark
word: nudzh
word: pinch
word: piss and moan
word: rail
word: rail out
word: repine
word: ride
word: snivel
word: whine
word: whinge
glosses: To complain; to grumble.
examples: text: which infinitely moans me
ref: 1626 February 1 (licensing date), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:
synonyms: word: deject
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To distress (someone); to sadden.
Derived terms: bitch and moan
make moan
moaner
moaning dove
moaningly
moaning Minnie
moany
piss and moan
unmoaned
Related terms: bemoan
murmur
protest
lament