mourner

noun4

1. •
   Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.

   • I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight. — 2024
2. •
   A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.

   • Looking out the door I see the rain / Fall upon the funeral mourners / Parading in a wake of sad relations / As their shoes fill up with water — 1995
3. •
   In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.
4. •
   Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.