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单词 funerary
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Definition of funerary in English:

funerary

adjective ˈfjuːn(ə)(rə)riˈfjunəˌrɛri
  • Relating to a funeral or the commemoration of the dead.

    funerary ceremonies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is one of the best known funerary monuments in the century.
    • In the next scene, Hsiao Kang sits in the back of a car with the funerary urn containing his dead father's ashes balanced on his knee.
    • He has suggested the entire complex was a funerary monument.
    • Although a handful of imported marble sarcophagi and a number of sculpted stelai are known, the cippus was the funerary monument of choice for the middle classes.
    • Overall it is an extremely rich concentration of late Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary monuments.
    • However, in 1614 the States General commissioned him to design the funerary monument for William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft.
    • Certain of his objects could almost be funerary monuments.
    • There is always some light in his landscape of funerary monuments and beautiful, deadly vegetation.
    • The qubba is the dome of a funerary monument for a famous person.
    • Composed altogether of nine such scenes, the poem serves as a funerary monument.
    • For example, while acknowledging that Whitney wants us to worship religious monuments and funerary traditions, we may wonder which Church he is referring to.
    • Most people in Thailand are cremated after three to seven days of funerary ceremonies and their ashes kept in a jar at temples.
    • In fact, the hands of husband and wife were often linked in English funerary monuments.
    • First, Eurysaces' declaration may have functioned as a means of protecting his funerary monument.
    • Ramesses claimed the victory from this drawn fight, celebrated in monumental funerary temple reliefs still visible at Thebes on the Nile.
    • This was a remarkable find, since little was known in those days about Old or Middle Kingdom temples apart from funerary monuments attached to royal burials.
    • The tree stump was hauled from the place of its growth to a funerary monument in a saltmarsh, and turned upside down.
    • Also excavated was a contemporary stone building perhaps occupied by those taking part in funerary ceremonies.
    • His body lies beneath the vast funerary monument shaped by Jacob Epstein, but not even its megalithic weight can keep the spirit of Oscar Wilde earthbound.
    • Arelate had a cemetery that compared favourably in the quality of its funerary monuments with the Appian Way.
    Synonyms
    commemorative, memorial, celebratory, commemorating

Origin

Late 17th century: from late Latin funerarius, from funus, funer- 'funeral'.

 
 

Definition of funerary in US English:

funerary

adjectiveˈfjunəˌrɛriˈfyo͞onəˌrerē
  • Relating to a funeral or the commemoration of the dead.

    funerary ceremonies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Composed altogether of nine such scenes, the poem serves as a funerary monument.
    • The qubba is the dome of a funerary monument for a famous person.
    • First, Eurysaces' declaration may have functioned as a means of protecting his funerary monument.
    • Although a handful of imported marble sarcophagi and a number of sculpted stelai are known, the cippus was the funerary monument of choice for the middle classes.
    • In the next scene, Hsiao Kang sits in the back of a car with the funerary urn containing his dead father's ashes balanced on his knee.
    • This is one of the best known funerary monuments in the century.
    • Also excavated was a contemporary stone building perhaps occupied by those taking part in funerary ceremonies.
    • Overall it is an extremely rich concentration of late Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary monuments.
    • In fact, the hands of husband and wife were often linked in English funerary monuments.
    • This was a remarkable find, since little was known in those days about Old or Middle Kingdom temples apart from funerary monuments attached to royal burials.
    • He has suggested the entire complex was a funerary monument.
    • However, in 1614 the States General commissioned him to design the funerary monument for William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft.
    • The tree stump was hauled from the place of its growth to a funerary monument in a saltmarsh, and turned upside down.
    • For example, while acknowledging that Whitney wants us to worship religious monuments and funerary traditions, we may wonder which Church he is referring to.
    • Arelate had a cemetery that compared favourably in the quality of its funerary monuments with the Appian Way.
    • Certain of his objects could almost be funerary monuments.
    • His body lies beneath the vast funerary monument shaped by Jacob Epstein, but not even its megalithic weight can keep the spirit of Oscar Wilde earthbound.
    • There is always some light in his landscape of funerary monuments and beautiful, deadly vegetation.
    • Ramesses claimed the victory from this drawn fight, celebrated in monumental funerary temple reliefs still visible at Thebes on the Nile.
    • Most people in Thailand are cremated after three to seven days of funerary ceremonies and their ashes kept in a jar at temples.
    Synonyms
    commemorative, memorial, celebratory, commemorating

Origin

Late 17th century: from late Latin funerarius, from funus, funer- ‘funeral’.

 
 
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