funeralfu‧ne‧ral /ˈfjuːnərəl/ ●●● S3 W3 noun [countable] 
The funeral will be held at St. Martin’s Church. Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the two boys. the minister who conducted the funeral service Nelson’s funeral procession down the Thames Ramdas set fire to the funeral pyre.funeral expenses/costs2it’s your funeral spoken used to warn someone that they, and no one else, must deal with the results of their actions
WORD ORIGINfuneral
Origin:
1300-1400 Late Latin funeralis, from Latin funus ‘funeral’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Don went to Boston to attend a friend's funeral.
- As yet, no awarding body is involved in this part of the process for the funeral industry.
- Both Mercedes and Auto Union sent senior figures to the London funeral and the flowers started to arrive.
- No funeral was planned, a spokesman said Friday.
- She didn't come to the funeral.
- The question then arises: what purpose do Hopi funeral rites serve?
- The town council arranged the funeral and the guild members attended in a secondary role.
WORD SETS
asphyxia, nounautopsy, nounbarrow, nounbequeath, verbbereaved, adjectivebereavement, nounbier, nounbody bag, nounbody count, nounburial, nounbury, verbcasket, nouncatacomb, nouncatafalque, nouncemetery, nouncenotaph, nouncharnel house, nounchurchyard, nouncoffin, nouncommittal, nouncondolence, nouncoroner, nouncorpse, nouncortege, nouncot death, nouncremate, verbcrematorium, nouncrib death, nouncrucifixion, nouncrucify, verbcrypt, noundeath mask, noundemise, noundeparted, adjectiveD.O.A., adjectivedrown, verbembalm, verbend, nounepitaph, nouneulogy, nounexhume, verbexpire, verbfatality, nounfuneral, nounfunerary, adjectivefunereal, adjectivegrave, noungravedigger, noungravestone, noungraveyard, nounheadstone, nounhearse, nounhospice, nouninter, verbinterment, nounmausoleum, nounmorgue, nounmortality, nounmortician, nounmortuary, nounmortuary, adjectivemourner, nounmourning, nounmummify, verbmummy, nounnecrophilia, nounobsequies, nounpall, nounpallbearer, nounpassing, nounperish, verbplot, nounprobate, nounprobate, verbpyre, nounquietus, nounremains, nounrest, verbrigor mortis, nounRIP, rise, verbsarcophagus, nounsepulchre, nounshroud, nounthrenody, nountoll, nountomb, nountombstone, nountumulus, nounundertaker, nounundertaking, nounurn, nounvault, nounwake, nounwar memorial, nounwill, nounwinding sheet, nounwreath, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The funeral will be held at St. Martin’s Church. Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the two boys. the minister who conducted the funeral service Nelson’s funeral procession down the Thames Ramdas set fire to the funeral pyre.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a memorial service for the disaster victimsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
1a religious ceremony for burying or cremating (=burning) someone who has died: The funeral will be held at St. Martin’s Church. Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the two boys. the minister who conducted the funeral service Nelson’s funeral procession down the Thames Ramdas set fire to the funeral pyre.· Funeral ceremonies have been held since ancient times.
(=the cost of arranging a funeral)· She had a small insurance policy to cover the funeral expenses.
a memorial service for the disaster victims· Some funeral directors will assist in do-it-yourself funerals by supplying a simple coffin and dealing with the documentation. 4.· To show proper respect and consideration for the families and the dead, funeral directors must dress appropriately.· The Independent Television Commission have now removed the ban on funeral directors.· To unburden themselves of arranging and directing these tasks, grieving families turn to funeral directors.· Indeed, this person's role would not have been dissimilar to that undertaken by the present-day funeral director.· After passing a State board licensing examination, new funeral directors may join the staff of a funeral home.· It is also possible to discuss arrangements with the funeral directors in advance - requests will be lodged with the company.· Though admonished not to by the funeral director, I want to touch her.
· Their widows should have collected £2,750 to help with funeral expenses, but there was no money in the fund.· Tommy Dorsey paid the funeral expenses.· The family took Victor back home because had he died in hospital then they could not have afforded the funeral expenses.
· I could have asked to go to the funeral home for a last view, to have the coffin unscrewed.· They went past a couple of funeral homes along the way.· Black day A funeral home was throwing open its doors today with guided tours around the coffins, memorial stones and hearses.· The afternoon papers are on the back seat and he reads them until the limousine stops in front of a funeral home.· After passing a State board licensing examination, new funeral directors may join the staff of a funeral home.· The funeral home brought her directly from the morgue this morning, and she may still be cold.· One of his houses is now a funeral home.
· He covers himself in rose-water all the time so that the place smells like a funeral parlour.· It was a testimonial for a funeral parlour which had dealt with the victims of a forest fire.· But what could be more important than his appointment as chairman of the largest and most prestigious funeral parlour in the city?· At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour.· There were five cars from the funeral parlour following the coffin.· I followed him into the funeral parlour, where we were greeted by a businesslike undertaker.
· Trelawney himself is buried in Pelynt Church and the crozier carried in his funeral procession is also there on view.· Herbalifers scuttle into permanent blackness, and a Soweto funeral procession comes on.· The funeral procession started peacefully in Brooklyn, with thousands following the coffin and lining the streets.· Citizens lined the main streets and applauded as the funeral procession passed by.· Regardless of the general press of humanity, a funeral procession was attempting to pass down it from the other end.· It's a wedding journey, not a funeral procession.· Gandhi's funeral Rajiv Gandhi was cremated on May 24 after a four-hour state funeral procession through the streets of Delhi.
· A special funeral pyre was built in the nearby woods to cremate deceased Hindu servicemen.· M., Ramdas, the third son of the Mahatma, set fire to the funeral pyre.· The birds returned, invaded Bird Spirit Land and flocked and swarmed above the funeral pyre.· There was something noble, almost Roman about it all: Let the steel industry be my funeral pyre.· Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke, he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time.· They held that a suicide should not be honored with a funeral pyre and urn-burial.· She crawled closer to the funeral pyre, rejoicing in its warmth, and slept.· So, haunted by images of funeral pyres of livestock, how far should we go to support farmers and auxiliary industries?
· That provides for the funeral service itself.· Nearly all worked in the funeral service and crematory industry, but a few worked for the Federal Government.· A belief in helping the weak was the thread that bound the funeral service.· At her request there will be no funeral services.· The funeral service was a hurried one because of their condition.· I sing in the choir at the funeral service for the family.· The funeral service and groupings within it had changed over the last five years.· They provide practical experience in all facets of the funeral service from embalming to transporting remains.
· His state funeral was held in Oslo cathedral on Jan. 30.· The two-hour ceremony combined the dignity of a state funeral with the down-to-earth gospel of her hometown church.· It was perhaps the closest the country has come to a state funeral in modern times.· After the State funeral, plans were made for the Coronation, which for the very first time was to be televised.· A state funeral was held on July 22.· The military leader, Colonel Acheampong, wanted him to have a state funeral.· Gandhi's funeral Rajiv Gandhi was cremated on May 24 after a four-hour state funeral procession through the streets of Delhi.· Borsellino, whose family had rejected a state funeral, was buried on July 24.
VERB· You can not choose who will arrange your funeral and take care of your affairs after you have died.· Some one has to arrange for the funeral.· The person applying must have taken responsibility for arranging the funeral.· She had no family, and Lilly arranged the funeral.· Eventually the medical school will arrange the funeral, and the family can participate if they wish. 8.· Relatives at Lyneham will now arrange private funerals.· During Nigel's second period in hospital, in between the times I spent there, I set about arranging his funeral.
· Earlier in the same church hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of another victim, 52-year-old James McKenna.· Bill managed our farm, and when Isaac died, of course we were expected to attend the funeral.· So many people attended his funeral in Cheltenham, that the town was brought to a standstill.· I did not attend the funeral.· She will today attend the funeral of the 11-month-old son of one of her closest friends, former flatmate Laura Londsdale.· MacDonald was attending the funeral of an aunt in Sussex.· She had decided not to attend the funeral, believing now that dignified restraint was her best role.· She descended into hell to attend the funeral of the raging bull of heaven, her instrument for terrorizing the earth.
· He hadn't gone to Auntie's funeral - children often don't.· And if the clients died of an overdose of bullets, he was not too proud to go to their funerals.· Children are often not allowed to go to funerals nor allowed to talk or ask questions about the person who has died.· You might as well go straight to your funeral.· Meredith speculated whether or not her dinner guest would go to her funeral.· I called the caseworker and asked did John want to go to the funeral.· He went to funerals because he liked to think of people being dead in coffins.· She, the Art Teacher and the Math Teacher went together to the funeral.
· Poor people preferred to hold their funerals on Sundays, when they did not have to work and when public-houses were open.· Other people held funerals for paper dolls such as Hedy Lamarr, but we thought that was childish.· Congress had killed a White House buyout plan earlier, and held what amounted to funeral services for the program.
· Daisy let Arthur pay for the funeral, although she knew he had no money.· And make him pay for the funeral.· Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy.· Tommy Dorsey paid the funeral expenses.
· BMonths earlier, he had helped his best friend, a former bodybuilder, plan his own funeral.· When the elder Kim died in 1994, Hwang was on the official committee that planned his funeral.· The week of the March crusade, a doctor had told Domroes' wife to start making plans for a funeral.
The funeral will be held at St. Martin’s Church. Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the two boys. the minister who conducted the funeral service Nelson’s funeral procession down the Thames Ramdas set fire to the funeral pyre.funeral expenses/costs2it’s your funeral spoken used to warn someone that they, and no one else, must deal with the results of their actions