funeral
/ˈfjuːn(ə)r(ə)l
/noun
1A ceremony or service held shortly after a person’s death, usually including the person’s burial or cremation: in the afternoon, he’d attended a funeral [as modifier]: a funeral service...
- Shocked regulars are holding a wake for him at the pub after his funeral service at Southend Crematorium next Tuesday.
- The funeral service and cremation will be held at Scholemoor Cemetery tomorrow at 1pm.
- Kevin Warr's family and friends packed into his funeral service at Overdale Crematorium.
Synonyms
burial, burying, interment, entombment, committal, inhumation, laying to rest, consignment to the grave;
cremation;
funeral rites, obsequies, last offices;
wake, vigil
rare sepulture, exequies
1.1US rare A sermon delivered at a funeral: the community would call him to preach the funeral...
- The gentleman was on his way to Oklahoma with his wife and six kids to preach a funeral.
1.2 archaic or literary A procession of mourners at a burial: her funeral had to pass...
- The laneway to the cemetery was narrow and it was on Deegans land - the funerals had to pass through Deegans yard.
- When she was a child it was common to see funerals pass the road with the coffin carried by men.
- The villages through which the funeral passed had all the shutters up in respect for his memory.
Phrases
it's your funeral
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French funeraille, from medieval Latin funeralia, neuter plural of late Latin funeralis, from Latin funus, funer- 'funeral, death, corpse'.