moan
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Inflected forms:
form: moans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: moaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: moaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: moaned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: moan
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: moan
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: moaned
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: moan
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: moanest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: moaned
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: moanedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: moans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: moaneth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: moaned
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: moan
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: moaned
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: moan
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: moaned
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: moan
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: moaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: moaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: more moan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.
pos: noun
examples: let out a deep moan
We heard the distant moan of a stag in pain.
gloss: A lament or sorrow.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: to make one's moan
it shall be my daily grief and moan, that I am so dull, & do so little[…]But if when all is done that we can do, you will leave us nothing but our tears and moans for self-destroyers, the sin is yours, and the suffering shall be yours.
to thee therefore oh Lord do I make my moan, to thee I render my humble petition, and pour out my soul which hath sinned against thee: Oh Lord, I beseech thee for thy infinite mercy in Jesus Christ, to take pity upon mee[…]
gloss: To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow
Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
gloss: To grieve.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
poetic
gloss: To make a moan or similar sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.
They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.
gloss: To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
gloss: To complain; to grumble.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
gloss: To distress (someone); to sadden.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: which infinitely moans me
gloss: Of or pertaining to a moa.
pos: adj
Related words: bemoan
lament
murmur
protest
Derived words: moanful
moanless
moansome
bitch and moan
make moan
moaner
moaning dove
moaningly
moaning Minnie
moany
piss and moan
unmoaned
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