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Definition: Weeping |
WeepingAdjective1. Showing sorrow. Noun1. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "weeping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Archeological | Slimy, wet surface of a material (usually glass) caused by water migrating and being held on the surface of an object by hygroscopic salts. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | Weeping in your dreams, foretells ill tidings and disturbances in your family. To see others weeping, signals pleasant reunion after periods of saddened estrangements. This dream for a young woman is ominous of lovers' quarrels, which can only reach reconciliation by self-abnegation. For the tradesman, it foretells temporary discouragement and reverses. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Medicine | Lacrimation. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: WeepingSynonyms: dolorous (adj), dolourous (adj), lachrymose (adj), tearful (adj), crying (n), tears (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lamentation | Tear; weeping; Verb: flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation, lachrymation, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Weeping |
| English words defined with "weeping": bawling, Beblubber, Blub, Blubbering ♦ cernuous, Chordospartium, cry ♦ drooping ♦ genus Chordospartium ♦ Illacrymable ♦ lamentable ♦ nodding ♦ Outweep ♦ pendulous, Prince Albert yew, Prince Albert's yew ♦ Salix blanda, Salix pendulina, Salix pendulina blanda, Saxe-gothea, Saxe-gothea conspicua, SOB, sobbing ♦ tearfulness ♦ viewing ♦ wailing, Wailment, wake, Weepful, weepiness, Weeping cross, weeping tree broom, Weepingly, Weeping-ripe, Wisconsin weeping willow. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "weeping": Allon-bachuth ♦ Baca ♦ COOK ♦ Handkerchief and Sword ♦ Laughing Philosopher ♦ Voice ♦ Water-gall, Weeping Brides, Weeping Philosopher, Weeping Saint, Willow Garland, Wooden Wall. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "weeping": Weeping-ripe. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I was a newborn vampire weeping at the beauty of the night (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Come away O human child To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping Than you can understand (Artificial Intelligence: AI; writing credit: Ian Watson) Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I think the trick is laying off the ale before you start quoting Angela's Ashes and weeping like a baby-man (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) Somewhere, Jerry Garcia is weeping. (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun) | |
Lyrics | Weeping like a willow (Song Sung Blue; performing artist: Neil Diamond; writing credit: Neil Diamond) Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Eating and Weeping (2002) Place of Weeping (1986) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Man with hand on head of weeping woman on porch. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dejected man sitting in chair and weeping woman. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Man and woman weeping. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | All firing was suspended until the sad procession of a hundred or more, weeping and wailing and wringing their hands, had passed. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Summer pastimes. That poor man is weeping! Some deep sorrow! I must speak to him ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bank note vignettes showing surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, George Washington resigning his commission, signing of a treaty, funeral of Indian with priest and Spanish soldiers in armor and weeping women. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Row house with iron fences--city and weeping willows in right background, Charleston. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 1917-1918, reference prints from negatives. Two weeping willows. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sunset on the Potomac. Sunset through weeping willows. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hains Point. Weeping willow at Hains Point I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Who never ate his bread in sorrow, who never sat through the sorrowful nights weeping on his bed, he knows you not, you heavenly Powers. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. |
Otto Von Bismarck-schoenhausen | Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping. |
Sir Thomas Browne | Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. |
William Shakespeare | I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She passed whole nights in weeping and thinking |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The poor girl laid me on her bosom, and fell weeping with shame and grief |
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| "Weeping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 77.39% of the time. "Weeping" is used about 429 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 77.39% | 332 | 15,754 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.49% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.32% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.8% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 429 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "weeping". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Allon-bachuth | N/A | Biblical | The oak of weeping |
| Bochim | N/A | Biblical | The place of weeping |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "weeping": babylonian weeping willow ♦ red with weeping ♦ weeping and gnashing of teeth ♦ weeping beech ♦ weeping birch ♦ weeping cross ♦ weeping love grass ♦ weeping rock ♦ weeping sinew ♦ weeping spring ♦ weeping spruce ♦ weeping tree ♦ weeping tree broom ♦ Weeping Water ♦ weeping widow ♦ weeping willow ♦ Wisconsin weeping willow. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "weeping": weeping-kid, Weeping-ripe. | |
Ending with "weeping": a-weeping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "weeping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që qan, lot (dew, tear, teardrop, water-drop), i lagështuar, e qarë (weep), degëvarur. (various references) | |
Arabic | ممطر, متهدل الأغصان, دامع (blear, lachrymatory, moist, tearful, watering, watery), بكاء (crier, cry, crying, maudlin, wailing, weepy), باكي (tearful). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мокър (moist, soggy, splashy, watery, wet), плачешком (crying), плач (boohoo, cry, crying, lament, lamentation, mourning, plaint, tears, weep), плакане (weep). (various references) | |
Chinese | 啜泣 (Weep, Wept). (various references) | |
Czech | slzící, plaèící, pláè (cry, crying), mokvající. (various references) | |
Danish | sive ud (to weep), gråd, græden. (various references) | |
Dutch | tranen (shed tears, weep). (various references) | |
Finnish | itku (crying). (various references) | |
French | suinter (weep), suintement (to weep), pluvieux (wet), pleurer (weep), pleurant, larmoyant (weepy), larmes, cri. (various references) | |
German | weinend (crying, sobbingly), Weinen (cry, crying, to cry (for), to weep, weep, wept, whine). (various references) | |
Greek | κλάμα (cry, crying), κλαυθμόσ (cry, crying), κλαίων (crying, weeper), θρήνοσ (lament, lamentation, plaint, wail), διαρρέω ελαφρά (to weep), δακρύζω (to weep). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תיפחות (sobbing, wailing), "מיע" (lachrymation, tear shedding), 'עי" (bleating, lowing, moo, mooing, wailing), בכי", בכי ות (tearfulness), בכי (cry, crying, whine), בכ" (cry, crying, in this way, wailing, weep), בכא (mourning). (various references) | |
Hungarian | síró (crying). (various references) | |
Italian | pianto (cry, crying, lament, lamented, tears). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 嗚' (sobbing), 泣く泣く (crying, tearfully, withtears), 泣き (lamenting), "欷き (sobbing), "欷 (sobbing), シュタイナー学 (a shop, chauvinism, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, mall, Schiller, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, shortcake, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, shovel, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shredder, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, Syria, temporary care, trace). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すすりなき (sob, sobbing), おえつ (fit of crying, groan, groaning, sobbing), なくなく (crying, tearfully, withtears), なき (lamenting, the deceased, the late), きょき (sobbing), ショーロ (crying). (various references) | |
Korean | 흐느껴 우. (various references) | |
Manx | keayney (cry, crying, deplore, greet, keening, lament, lamentation, lamenting, mourn, mourning, wail, wailing, weep, weeping; keen-minded), jeirnys (lamentation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eepingway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pranto (howl, mourning, tears), lacrimoso (lachrymose, tearful, watery), lágrima (bead, tear, teardrop, water-drop), gotejante (dripping), exsudação (bleeding, exudation, exuding, sweating), choroso (mournful, tearful), choro (blubber, cry, crying, moan, weep), úmido (clammy, damp, dewy, dripping, humid, juicy, madid, moist, soft, squashy, tops, watery, wet). (various references) | |
Romanian | plâns (cry, tear stained, tears), plângãtor (plaintive), lacrimi (brine, eyewater, water). (various references) | |
Russian | увлажняющий, мокнущий, запотевший (steamy, sweaty), проливающий слезы, плач (blubber, cry, lachrymation, mourning, plaint), плакать плач. (various references) | |
Scottish | gul (lamenting), gal (nf.ind. weeping), caoidh (bewail, lamentation, lamenting, mourn). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plakanje (cry, crying), plačan (crying, tearful, weepy), plač (cry, crying, sob), koji plače, koji ima povijene grane, kišovit (pluvial, pluvious, rainy, showery, wet), jadikovanje (lament, lamentation, moaning, plaint, wail, wailing). (various references) | |
Spanish | lloroso (lachrymose, tearful), llorón (crybaby, maudlin, weeper, weepy), llanto (bawl, chant, crying, denunciation). (various references) | |
Swedish | gråt (blubber, crying, sobbing). (various references) | |
Turkish | iltihap akıtan, gözü yaşlı (bathed in tears, in tears, tearful), dökülen (deciduous, effusive, pouring out, tributary), akıtan, ağlayan (crying, lachrymose, tearful, wailing, weepy), ağlama (cry, lachrymation, lament, lamentation, wail, weep, whimper). (various references) | |
Turkmen | agy (crying). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мокнучий (wet), запітнілий, запотівання (breath, sweating, weep), просочування води, плачучий (wailing), плач (blubber, cry, lachrymation, lament, weep), плакучий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đang khóc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flebili, fletibus, fletu, fletum, fletus, lacrima, lacrimae, lacrimam, lacrimarum, lacrimas, lacrimis, lamentatio, lamentum, ploratio, ploratus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 37, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dierrhxen de iakwb ta imatia autou kai epeqeto sakkon epi thn osfun autou kai epenqei ton uion autou hmeraV pollaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Scissisque vestibus indutus est cilicio lugens filium multo tempore |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Iacob rent his cloothes ad put sacke clothe aboute his loynes and sorowed for his sonne a longe season. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 37, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | Ug gigisi ni Jacob ang iyang mga bisti, ug misul-ob sa bisti sa kasubo, ug nagbalata tungod sa iyang anak sulod sa hataas nga mga adlaw. |
| Croatian | I razdere Jakov svoje haljine, stavi pokornièku kostrijet oko bokova i dugo vremena oplakivaše svoga sina. |
| Danish | Så sønderrev Jakob sine Klæder og bandt Sæk om sine Lænder, og han sørgede over sin Søn i mange Dage. |
| Dutch | Toen scheurde Jakob zijn klederen, en legde een zak om zijn lenden; en hij bedreef rouw over zijn zoon vele dagen. |
| Finnish | Ja Jaakob repäisi vaatteensa, pani säkin lanteilleen ja suri poikaansa pitkät ajat. |
| French | Et il déchira ses vêtements, il mit un sac sur ses reins, et il porta longtemps le deuil de son fils. |
| German | Und Jakob zerriß sein Kleider und legte einen Sack um seine Lenden und trug Leid um seinen Sohn lange Zeit. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yakub merobek pakaiannya karena sedih dan memakai pakaian kabung. Berhari-hari lamanya ia meratapi anaknya itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Yakubpun mengoyakkanlah pakaiannya, lalu dipakainya kain kembali pada pinggangnya, serta berkabunglah ia karena anaknya beberapa hari lamanya. |
| Maori | Na ka haea e Hakopa ona kakahu, ka kakahuria e ia tona hope ki te kakahu taratara, a he maha nga ra i uhungatia ai e ia tana tama. |
| Norwegian | Og Jakob sønderrev sine klær og bandt sekk om sine lender og sørget over sin sønn i lang tid. |
| Rumanian | Wi wi -a rupt hainele, wi -a pus un sac pe coapse, wi a jqlit multq vreme pe fiul squ. |
| Swedish | Och Jakob rev sönder sina kläder och svepte säcktyg om sina länder och sörjde sin son i lång tid. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "weeping": weepings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "weeping": beweeping, minesweeping, outweeping, sweeping, upsweeping. (additional references) | |
Words containing "weeping": minesweepings, sweepingly, sweepingness, sweepingnesses, sweepings. (additional references) | |
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"Weeping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deeping, eeping, eping, jeeping, weening, wepting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "weeping" (pronounced wē"ping) |
| 5 | w ē" p i ng | sweeping. |
| 4 | -ē" p i ng | beeping, bleeping, creeping, heaping, keeping, leaping, peeping, reaping, safekeeping, seeping, sleeping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-p-w" | |
-1 letter: peeing. | |
-2 letters: genie, genip, newie, ngwee. | |
-3 letters: gene, gien, neep, peen, pein, pine, ping, ween, weep, wine, wing, wipe. | |
-4 letters: eng, ewe, gee, gen, gie, gin, gip, nee, new, nip, pee, peg, pen, pew, pie, pig, pin, wee, wen, wig, win. | |
-5 letters: en, in, ne, pe, pi, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-p-w" | |
+1 letter: sweeping, weepings, wheeping. | |
+2 letters: beweeping, sweepings, wheepling. | |
+3 letters: empowering, outweeping, previewing, preweaning, repowering, sweepingly, upsweeping. | |
+4 letters: pennyweight, pinwheeling. | |
+5 letters: minesweeping, newspapering, overpowering, pennyweights, sleepwalking, sweepingness. | |
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