Thesaurus: alas
An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.
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Definitions
- interj. An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.
- adv. by bad luck
- An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.
- An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension ofevil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas theday, like alack a day, or alas the white.
- u:100 n a flat wing-shaped">wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism n a wing of an insect r by bad luck