Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A low, sustained, mournful cry, usually indicative of sorrow or pain.
- noun A similar sound.
- noun A complaint.
- intransitive verb To utter a moan or moans.
- intransitive verb To make a sound resembling a moan.
- intransitive verb To complain, lament, or grieve.
- intransitive verb To bewail or bemoan.
- intransitive verb To utter with moans or a moan.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moa-like; of or pertaining to a moa.
- To utter a low dull sound expressive of physical or mental suffering; lament inarticulately or with mournful utterance.
- To give forth a saddening or gloomy sound, like one in distress; sound like a low cry of distress.
- To murmur; complain; protest.
- To lament; deplore; bewail.
- To cause to make lamentation; afflict; distress: as, “which infinitely moans me,”
- noun A low dull sound expressing grief or pain; a sound of lamentation not so deep as a groan; audible expression of sorrow; grief expressed in words or cries.
- noun A low dull sound resembling that made by a person moaning.
- noun Lament: lamentation; complaint: especially in the phrase to make one's moan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To bewail audibly; to lament.
- transitive verb obsolete To afflict; to distress.
- intransitive verb To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
- intransitive verb To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate.
- noun A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
- noun A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a low, mournful
cry ofpain ,sorrow orpleasure - verb to make a moan or similar
sound - verb to
complain
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an utterance expressing pain or disapproval
- verb indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The sugar train to Matanzas started with a trundle and a high moan from the horn, pulling away from the suburbs of Havana with stateliness rather than speed, pursued by stragglers who hopped aboard like hobos catching a freight.
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The sugar train to Matanzas started with a trundle and a high moan from the horn, pulling away from the suburbs of Havana with stateliness rather than speed, pursued by stragglers who hopped aboard like hobos catching a freight.
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The sugar train to Matanzas started with a trundle and a high moan from the horn, pulling away from the suburbs of Havana with stateliness rather than speed, pursued by stragglers who hopped aboard like hobos catching a freight.
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Why she thinks that anyone cares about her weight, or why she thinks it's necessary to go to a major magazine and bitch and moan is beyond me.
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Then come the hippos, who moan from the nearby Chari River (we didn't know they were hippos at the time).
Archive 2005-10-01 Zach Center 2005
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Then come the hippos, who moan from the nearby Chari River (we didn't know they were hippos at the time).
Darda: Our Training Site Zach Center 2005
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Then there was a sort of sighing moan from the crowd on the cliff, who had been there all night for the French to land, and then Lord Arden's voice –
The House of Arden Edith 1923
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A moan from the sickly lad in the corner of the hut, roused David from the amazed stare with which he was contemplating the little eager, wiry, energetic old man.
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The moan was a wordless cry of hunger that drifted to them through the pillars of oak trees, like the plaintive call of a wandering ghost.
Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010
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The entire P.E. class groaned in unison, and my moan was the loudest of all.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
bilby commented on the word moan
All day I hear the noise of waters
Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is, when going
Forth alone,
He hears the winds cry to the waters'
Monotone.
- James Joyce, 'The Noise Of Waters'.
November 30, 2008
usenolies commented on the word moan
It is strange to witness the moan.
April 15, 2022