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CONDOLENCE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expression of sympathy with another's grief

Example:

they sent their condolences

Synonyms:

commiseration; condolence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("condolence" is a kind of...):

acknowledgement; acknowledgment (a statement acknowledging something or someone)

Derivation:

condole (express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death)

condolent (expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one)

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