GRIEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does griever mean? 

• GRIEVER (noun)
  The noun GRIEVER has 1 sense:

1. a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)

  Familiarity information: GRIEVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

griever; lamenter; mourner; sorrower

Hypernyms ("griever" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "griever"):

bearer; pallbearer (one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral)

wailer (a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries)

weeper (a hired mourner)

Derivation:

grieve (feel grief)