Moanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mōn, IPA: /məʊn/
• (米国発音) enPR: mōn, IPA: /moʊn/
• 韻: -əʊn
• Homophone: mown

名詞

moan (plural moans)

1. A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.

   let out a deep moan

   We heard the distant moan of a stag in pain.

2. (obsolete) A lament or sorrow.

   to make one's moan ― to grieve, complain

   • 1662, Richard Baxter, Now or never the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, encouraged, excited and directed, and the opposers and neglecters convinced by the light of Scripture and reason, pages 131 and 239:

     it shall be my daily grief and moan, that I am so dull, & do so little […] But if when all is done that we can do, you will leave us nothing but our tears and moans for self-destroyers, the sin is yours, and the suffering shall be yours.

   • 1660, John Ball, A treatise of divine meditation, page 255:

     to thee therefore oh Lord do I make my moan, to thee I render my humble petition, and pour out my soul which hath sinned against thee: Oh Lord, I beseech thee for thy infinite mercy in Jesus Christ, to take pity upon mee […]

動詞

moan (third-person singular simple present moans, present participle moaning, simple past and past participle moaned)

1. (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. [from 13th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].

   • 1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow

     Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.

2. (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: lament; see also Thesaurus:be sad

3. (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound. [from 18th c.]

   She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:

     They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.

4. (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. [from 19th c.]

   ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.

5. (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: whine; see also Thesaurus:complain

6. (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden. [15th–17th c.]

   Synonyms: deject; see also Thesaurus:sadden

   • 1626 February 1 (licensing date), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:

     which infinitely moans me

Conjugation

派生語

関連する語

• bemoan

参考

• murmur
• protest
• lament

Further reading

• “moan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “moan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

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