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Definition of Alas

Alas

  1. 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.

Alas Quotations

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William Shakespeare

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Alas Translations

alas in Dutch is o wee, helaas
alas in German is leider
alas in Hungarian is sajna
alas in Italian is purtroppo
alas in Latin is vae
alas in Spanish is ay

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