[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lamentation \lam`enta"tion\, n. f. lamentation, l.
   lamentatio.
   1. the act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow;
      wailing; moaning.
      1913 webster

            in rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and
            weeping.                              --matt. ii.
                                                  18.
      1913 webster

   2. pl. script. a book of the old testament attributed to
      the prophet jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature
      of its contents.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lamentation
     n 1: a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be
          heard throughout the ward" syn: lament, plaint, wail
     2: the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing
        grief syn: mourning
see also:
lament plaint wail mourning 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

49 moby thesaurus words for "lamentation":
   agony, anguish, bitterness, bleakness, care, carking care,
   cheerlessness, comfortlessness, crying, depression, discomfort,
   dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dreariness, grief, grieving,
   grievousness, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, joylessness,
   lamentability, lamenting, languishment, misery, moaning,
   mournfulness, mourning, pain, painfulness, pathos, pining,
   pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, prostration,
   regrettableness, sadness, sharpness, sobbing, sorrow,
   sorrowfulness, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe, woebegoneness,
   woefulness

[4] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

lamentation
   heb. qinah, an elegy or dirge. the first example of this form
   of poetry is the lament of david over saul and jonathan 2 sam.
   1:17-27. it was a frequent accompaniment of mourning amos
   8:10. in 2 sam. 3:33, 34 is recorded david's lament over abner.
   prophecy sometimes took the form of a lament when it predicted
   calamity ezek. 27:2, 32; 28:12; 32:2, 16.
   

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