Associations to the word «Lamentations»

Wiktionary

LAMENTATION, noun. The act of lamenting.
LAMENTATION, noun. A sorrowful cry; a lament.
LAMENTATION, noun. Specifically, mourning.
LAMENTATION, noun. Lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
LAMENTATION, noun. A group of swans.

Dictionary definition

LAMENTATION, noun. A cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward".
LAMENTATION, noun. The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin