lorn

[ lawrn ]

adjective

1. forsaken, desolate, bereft, or forlorn.
2. Archaic. lost, ruined, or undone.

lorn

/ lɔːn /

adjective

1. poetic.
   forsaken or wretched

Derived Forms

• ˈlornness, noun

Other Words From

• lornness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of lorn¹

1250–1300; Middle English; Old English loren, past participle of -lēosan to lose (recorded in compounds)

Word History and Origins

Origin of lorn¹

Old English loren, past participle of -lēosan to lose

Example Sentences

Lorn asked her aunt if she could unwrap it and put it in the coffin with her granny and she agreed.

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Friends also give Lorn elephants as gifts and she keeps these ones.

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When Lorn Pearson was a child she was fascinated by the big wooden elephant in her granny's house in the Scottish Highlands.

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Among the places Lorn has left the trinkets to remember her granny are Lochaline, on the Morven peninsula, where Mrs Fletcher lived at the end of her life and where she is buried with her husband, John.

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There are also elephants hidden in Wick, where Lorn grew up, and in Edinburgh, where Mrs Fletcher lived as a child.

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