| 单词 | funeral |
| 释义 | funeral (once / 232 pages) n A funeral is a ceremony to bury or cremate the dead. If you go to a funeral, wear black and try not to seem like you're having fun. Funeral comes from the Latin root fūnus, for "dead body," and so a funeral is the ritual that surrounds taking care of a dead body. Depending on the dead person's beliefs, there will often be a representative of a religion there to honor them in a traditional way. Sometimes we use funeral for dead things other than dead people. If you just gave a really bad party, you could call it a funeral for your social life. WORD FAMILYfuneral: funerals, funerary, funereal+/funereal: funereally USAGE EXAMPLESTraditionally turtles were eaten at major events, like a wedding or a chief’s funeral. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Weaver’s funeral will be Thursday at the Jaffa Shrine Center. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) As the search continued, the first funerals were held on Sunday. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) n a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated hundreds of people attended his funeral Hypo|Hyper burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave sky buriala traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance a formal event performed on a special occasion |
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