the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
a funeral procession.
adjective
of or relating to a funeral: funeral services; funeral expenses.
Idioms for funeral
be someone's funeral, Informal. to have unpleasant consequences for someone: If you don't finish the work on time, it will be your funeral!
Origin of funeral
1350–1400; Middle English (adj.) <Medieval Latin fūnerālis, equivalent to Latin fūner-, stem of fūnus funeral rites + -ālis-al1; (noun), from early 16th cent., probably <Middle French funerailles<Medieval Latin fūnerālia, neuter plural of fūnerālis
OTHER WORDS FROM funeral
pre·fu·ner·al,adjective
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH funeral
funeral , funereal, funerary
Words nearby funeral
fundus of urinary bladder, fundus of uterus, Fundy, funemployed, Fünen, funeral, funeral director, funeral home, funeralize, funeral parlour, funeral pie
López told the Blade her mother and Huerta’s brothers were able to attend the funeral.
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Horrifically, her brother died while she was at the funeral service for her father.
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From Monday, all social gatherings of more than six people will become illegal across England, not including gatherings at workplaces, schools, weddings, funerals, and organized team sports.
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The Dodgers, who had broken the league’s color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson in 1947, were the last holdouts, and the team’s front office figured King’s funeral would be over by the time its game began.
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Neither she nor her parents could attend the small funeral for fear of the virus.
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Yet even after the funeral protest, de Blasio was booed and heckled while addressing a new class of recruits as well.
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Those who are not working on Sunday will almost certainly attend the funeral for Liu.
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The truest words at the funeral were those of young Jaden, as quoted by the governor.
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Castro actually flew up to Montreal to be a pallbearer at the 2000 funeral of a beloved Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.
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As far as he is concerned, they're preparing his obituary and he doesn't care to attend the funeral.
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Chatham had addressed him living, in verse, and peers sought for the honour of supporting the pall at his funeral.
Their Majesties' Servants (Volume 2 of 3)|John Doran
There has been no funeral from that house in Brunswick Road?
Spies of the Kaiser|William Le Queux
This funeral dance a widow was apparently expected to renew in public at every festival for months after the death.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead|James George Frazer
He had felt in them, but hurriedly, just after the funeral the day before; he would examine them again.
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Grim legend clings around the account of Lags last illness and his funeral.
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British Dictionary definitions for funeral
funeral
/ (ˈfjuːnərəl) /
noun
a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
(as modifier)a funeral service
a procession of people escorting a corpse to burial
informalworry; concern; affairthat's your funeral
Word Origin for funeral
C14: from Medieval Latin fūnerālia, from Late Latin fūnerālis (adj), from Latin fūnus funeral