verb
- wails or cries loudly in grief or mourning
noun
- loud cries or wails of grief or mourning
Examples
- She keens for her lost child every night.
- The widow keens at the funeral service.
- Traditional Irish women would keen at wakes.
- The sound of keens filled the cemetery.
- Her keens could be heard throughout the village.
- The mourners’ keens echoed in the chapel.