funeral

[ fyoo-ner-uh l ]

/ ˈfyu nər əl /

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noun

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.

Nearby words

fundus of uterus, fundusectomy, fundy, funemployed, funen, funeral, funeral director, funeral home, funeral parlour, funeral pie, funeralize

Idioms

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

Related forms

pre·fu·ner·al, adjective

Can be confused

funeral funereal funerary

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Examples from the Web for funeral

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.
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There has been no funeral from that house in Brunswick Road?
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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.
Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland|J. Maxwell Wood

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

informal worry; concern; affairthat's your funeral

Word Origin for funeral

C14: from Medieval Latin fūnerālia, from Late Latin fūnerālis (adj), from Latin fūnus funeral

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Idioms and Phrases with funeral

funeral

see it's your funeral.

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