Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Sorrow; grief.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Pain; pang; suffering; distress.
  • noun Grief; sorrow; lamentation.
  • noun A lesser feast established by Pope Pius VII. in 1814 for the third Sunday of September.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Poetic Pain; grief; distress; anguish.

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  • noun literary sorrow, grief, misery or anguish
  • noun a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (poetry) painful grief

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English dolour, from Old French, from Latin dolor, pain, from dolēre, to suffer, feel pain.]

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Anglo-Norman dolour, mainland Old French dolor (modern douleur), from Latin dolor ("pain, grief").

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  • "I spend my doleful days in dumps and dolors."

    March 1, 2011

  • Try starting each morning with a positive thought and a Prolagus breakfast.

    March 1, 2011

  • Another day, another dolor.

    March 1, 2011

  • This word often appears in my "greeked" type for layouts.

    March 1, 2011