condolence
noun/kənˈdəʊləns/
/kənˈdəʊləns/
[countable, usually plural, uncountable]- sympathy that you feel for somebody when a person in their family or that they know well has died; an expression of this sympathy
- to give/offer/express your condolences
- Our condolences go to his wife and family.
- a letter of condolence
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from condole from Christian Latin condolere, from con- ‘with’ + dolere ‘grieve, suffer’, influenced by French condoléance.Definitions on the go
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