Funeral ˈfjuːnərəl Family Latin Noun Bre Hundreds People

• hundreds of people attended the funeral.
• a funeral procession
• a funeral march (= a sad piece of music suitable for funerals)
• a clergyman friend of the family conducted the funeral.

funeral

1. a ceremony, usually a religious one, for burying or cremating (= burning) a dead person
• Hundreds of people attended the funeral.
• a funeral procession
• a funeral march (= a sad piece of music suitable for funerals)
2. used to tell somebody that they, and nobody else, will have to deal with the unpleasant results of their own actions
• See related entries: Religious ceremonies
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Extra Examples

• A clergyman friend of the family conducted the funeral.
• Everyone went back to the house after the service for the funeral gathering.
• He gave the address at her funeral.
• He read out a poem at her funeral.
• His savings were just enough to pay for a respectable funeral.
• She had a simple funeral, as she had requested.
• The dead man’s son arranged the funeral.
• The family held a private funeral.
• The funeral was held in St Mary’s Church.
• a mass funeral of the victims of the fire
• the flames of the funeral pyre

Word 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’.