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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King