Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A complaint.
- noun An utterance of grief or sorrow; a lamentation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lamentation; complaint; audible expression of sorrow; a sad or serious song.
- noun Representation made of injury or wrong done; complaint.
- noun In law: A statement of grievance made to a court for the purpose of asking redress.
- noun The first process in an inferior court, in the nature of original process.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament.
- noun An accusation or protest on account of an injury.
- noun (Law) A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lament or woeful cry. - noun A
complaint . - noun An
accusation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed
- noun a cry of sorrow and grief
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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About me is murmur and hum, and I know it for the gnat - swarm of the living, piping for a little space its thin plaint of troubled air.
Chapter 36 2010
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The usual plaint is the health care American style is very expensive, which is a simple fact.
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About me is murmur and hum, and I know it for the gnat - swarm of the living, piping for a little space its thin plaint of troubled air.
Chapter XXXVI 1913
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As the Bowery fete ably proves, Superdrag's back catalog is loaded with power-pop bullets-such as the cheerfully bitter post-major-label plaint "Keep It Close to Me"
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Job was not, in her view, rebellious; "his plaint was a relief to his own spirit, and an appeal for sympathy."
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone
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It begins with a plaint, that is full of cynic despair; thence it breaks suddenly into a cheerful andante.
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And all through the years, in trouble and in happiness, her plaint was the same -- "If I'd thought I was going to stick down on a farm all my life, slavin 'for a pack of menfolks day and night, I'd rather have died.
One Basket Edna Ferber 1926
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And all through the years, in trouble and in happiness, her plaint was the same: "If I'd thought I was going to stick down on a farm all my life, slavin 'for a pack of men folks day and night, I'd rather have died.
Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926
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"I simply can't walk, and you boys needn't demand it of me," was her plaint.
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So it is tempting to dismiss his dim view of contemporary pop as the all-too-typical plaint of an aging fan.
When the Music Stopped Michael Azerrad 2011
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