Bereavement

Definition: Bereavement

Bereavement

Noun

1. State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one.

Date "bereavement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of the bereavement of a child, warns you that your plans will meet with quick frustration, and where you expect success there will be failure. Bereavement of relatives, or friends, denotes disappointment in well matured plans and a poor outlook for the future. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Health	Refers to the whole process of grieving and mourning and is associated with a deep sense of loss and sadness. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Bereavement

Synonym: mourning (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Death	Noun: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.
Loss	Privation, bereavement; deprivation; (dispossession); riddance; damage, squandering, waste.
Taking	Dispossession; deprivation, deprivement; bereavement; divestment; disherison; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bereavement

English words defined with "bereavement": Orbation ♦ sorrow ♦ Viduation. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bereavement": Bereavement, Break ♦ Comet, Condole ♦ Drowning ♦ Necklace ♦ Ox ♦ Pearls, Pine Tree ♦ Ramble, Rocking-chair ♦ Shepherd, Stars ♦ Vault, Violin ♦ Water Lily, Wind. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Oh, her bridal bower becomes a burial bier of bitter bereavement! (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart)
Lyrics	Universal bereavement, ("We Will All Go Together When We Go"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)
Movie/TV Titles	The Bride's Bereavement (1932)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Book of Condolences: Classic Letters of Bereavement (reference) The Long Pale Corridor: Contemporary Poems of Bereavement (reference) Women Facing Loss : Disease, Bereavement and Emotional Response (reference) Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home (reference) Family Focused Grief Therapy: A Model of Family-Centred Care during Palliative Care and Bereavement (Facing Death) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Bereavement (reference) Bereavement & Loss Resources (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Mourning; mourn; bereavement; bereave; bereaving; mourned; death; funeral; sad; blue; down.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Iris Murdoch	Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
A Grief Observed	C.S. Lewis	If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Short-term intermittent use of hypnotics and sedative tricyclics may be useful for temporary problems such as bereavement, dislocation, and situational anxiety. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Bereavement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bereavement" is used about 337 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
Noun (singular)	100%	337	15,616

Expression using "bereavement": feel a sense of bereavement. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "bereavement": bereavement-coping, bereavement-counselling.
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 "bereavement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zi (black, dearth, famine, mourning, sables), humbje e madhe. (various references)

Arabic		‏فقدان (absence, deprivation, destitution, forfeit, forfeiture, lack, loss, nonexistence, privation), ‏الحرمان (deprivation, disinheritance), ‏السلب (beguilement, despoliation), ‏الثكل. (various references)

Bulgarian		тежка загуба. (various references)

Chinese		居丧. (various references)

Czech		bolestná ztráta, zármutek (chagrin, distress, grief, pain, regret, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe), úmrtí (demise, fatality), žal (heartache, heartbreak, pain, pathos, regret, sadness, sorrow, woe). (various references)

Dutch		Landelijk Steunpunt Rouwbegeleiding (National Bereavement Counselling Centre). (various references)

French		privation, perte, deuil. (various references)

German		Verlust (abatement, deficit, deprivation, disadvantage, exfiltration, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, loss, losses, miss, silence, wastage). (various references)

Greek		απώλεια (casualty, interception, interception loss, leakage, loss, perdition, wastage, waste). (various references)

Hebrew		שכול (bereaved, bereft, childlessness). (various references)

Hungarian		gyász (black, grief, mourning, obituary, sables), haláleset (casualty, death, demise, fatality, to salty), gyászeset. (various references)

Indonesian		perampasan (despoliment, usurpation), kematian (death, decease, demise, dying). (various references)

Italian		privazione (deprival, deprivation, divestiture, hardship, loss, privation, suffering), perdita (blackout, breakdown, damage, deprivation, exfiltration, forfeit, forfeiture, leak, leakage, loss, migration, reduction, regret, sortie, toll, wastage, waste), lutto (mourning). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		死別 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しべつ. (various references)

Korean		사별. (various references)

Manx		baase (capital punishment, death, extinction). (various references)

Pig Latin		ereavementbay

Portuguese		privação (deprivation, dividable, hardship, Miss, privation), perda (confusion, damage, deprivation, exfiltration, forfeit, forgather, leak, leakage, leak-proof, loss, misbirth, miscarry, Miss, offscourings, perdition, prejudice, privation, ruination, seepage, undoing, wastage, waste, wreck), despojamento (denudation, despoliation, divestiture). (various references)

Romanian		pierderea unei persoane apropiate, doliu (black, crape, mourning, sable). (various references)

Russian		тяжелая утрата. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		težak gubitak, žalost (affliction, chagrin, distress, grief, mourning, regret, sorrow). (various references)

Spanish		pérdida (attenuation, drain, exfiltration, failure, forfeit, forfeiture, leak, leakage, loss, outflow, regret, slippage, stalling, wastage, waste), luto (black, mourning), duelo (affair, duel, grief, mourning), aflicción (ache, affliction, anguish, distress, grief, misery, trial, trouble, woe). (various references)

Swedish		smärtsam förlust. (various references)

Thai		การสูญเสียญาติหรือเพื่อสนิท. (various references)

Turkish		yakınının ölümü, kayıp (decrement, forfeit, gone, loss, lost, missing, sacrifice). (various references)

Ukranian		тяжка втрата, позбавлення (deprivation, divestiture, divestment, forfeiture, release, riddance). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự mất. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	orbitas, viduitas, viduitate, viduitatis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bereavement": bereavements. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bereavement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bearavement, berearement, bereavment, bereivement, bereveament, berevement, breavement. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bereavement" (pronounced berē"vmunt)
6	-ē" v m u n t	achievement.
5	-v m u n t	enslavement, improvement, involvement, movement, pavement.
4	-m u n t	abandonment, abatement, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment.
3	-u n t	aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-m-n-r-t-v"
	-3 letters: averment, emeerate, enervate, tenebrae, terebene, venerate.
	-4 letters: bereave, nervate, varment, verbena, veteran.
	-5 letters: ambeer, banter, barmen, batmen, beaten, beater, beaver, bemean, bename, berate, brevet, entera, entree, eterne, evener, marten, meaner, meeter, neater, rebate, remate, remeet, rename, reteam, retene, tavern, teemer, teener, veneer, venter.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-m-n-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: bereavements.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 72 65 61 76 65 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0072 0065 0061 0076 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
bereavement	336	bereavement travel	8
bereavement poem	71	bereavement bet committee mishpachah support	8
bereavement fare	49	bereavement child	8
bereavement airfare	41	academy american bereavement	8
bereavement gift	33	bereavement policy	7
bereavement counseling	32	bereavement quote	7
loss and bereavement grief	30	bereavement support	7
bereavement flight	29	bereavement magazine	7
pet bereavement	28	death and bereavement	6
grief and bereavement	20	bereavement thank you	6
bereavement leave	18	airline bereavement	6
bereavement card	17	bereavement pay	6
airline bereavement fare	14	bereavement prayer	6
bereavement poetry	13	bereavement verse	5
airline bereavement ticket	12	bereavement letter	5
bereavement group	12	bereavement law	5
loss and bereavement	11	gift basket for bereavement	5
air bereavement fare	10	bereavement message	4
bereavement services	10	bereavement cleveland counseling	4
bereavement support group	9	bereavement note thank	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bereavement

Definition: Bereavement

Bereavement

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Bereavement

Dream Interpretation

Health

Synonym: Bereavement

Synonyms within Context: Bereavement

Death

Loss

Taking

Crosswords: Bereavement

Modern Usage: Bereavement

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Bereavement

Books

Periodicals

Sounds Captioned with "Bereavement".

Familiar Quotations: Bereavement

Iris Murdoch

Use in Literature: Bereavement

A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis

Non-Fiction Usage: Bereavement

Health

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Bereavement

Expressions: Bereavement

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bereavement

bereavement

bereavement travel

bereavement poem

bereavement bet committee mishpachah support

bereavement fare

bereavement child

bereavement airfare

academy american bereavement

bereavement gift

bereavement policy

bereavement counseling

bereavement quote

loss and bereavement grief

bereavement support

bereavement flight

bereavement magazine

pet bereavement

death and bereavement

grief and bereavement

bereavement thank you

bereavement leave

airline bereavement

bereavement card

bereavement pay

airline bereavement fare

bereavement prayer

bereavement poetry

bereavement verse

airline bereavement ticket

bereavement letter

bereavement group

bereavement law

loss and bereavement

gift basket for bereavement

air bereavement fare

bereavement message

bereavement services

bereavement cleveland counseling

bereavement support group

bereavement note thank

Modern Translations: Bereavement

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