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funeral

[ fyoo-ner-uhl ]

noun

  1. the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
  2. a funeral procession.


adjective

  1. of or relating to a funeral:

    funeral services; funeral expenses.

funeral

/ ˈfjuːnərəl /

noun

    1. a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
    2. ( as modifier )

      a funeral service

  1. a procession of people escorting a corpse to burial
  2. informal.
    worry; concern; affair

    that's your funeral

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of funeral1

1350–1400; Middle English (adj.) < Medieval Latin fūnerālis, equivalent to Latin fūner-, stem of fūnus funeral rites + -ālis -al 1; (noun), from early 16th cent., probably < Middle French funerailles < Medieval Latin fūnerālia, neuter plural of fūnerālis
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Word History and Origins

Origin of funeral1

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

Idioms
  1. 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!

More idioms and phrases containing funeral

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Example Sentences

López told the Blade her mother and Huerta’s brothers were able to attend the funeral.

Horrifically, her brother died while she was at the funeral service for her father.

From Ozy

From Monday, all social gatherings of more than six people will become illegal across England, not including gatherings at workplaces, schools, weddings, funerals, and organized team sports.

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The Dodgers, who had broken the league’s color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson in 1947, were the last holdouts, and the team’s front office figured King’s funeral would be over by the time its game began.

Neither she nor her parents could attend the small funeral for fear of the virus.

Yet even after the funeral protest, de Blasio was booed and heckled while addressing a new class of recruits as well.

Those who are not working on Sunday will almost certainly attend the funeral for Liu.

The truest words at the funeral were those of young Jaden, as quoted by the governor.

Castro actually flew up to Montreal to be a pallbearer at the 2000 funeral of a beloved Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.

As far as he is concerned, they're preparing his obituary and he doesn't care to attend the funeral.

He had his beautiful robe under him (for it was summer), and was preparing for his funeral oration.

When the funeral was over, and they returned to their desolate home, at the sight of the empty cradle Ramona broke down.

When the last scarlo is burned out a funeral march is played and all disperse to their homes.

His funeral, I need not say, was attended by railway men from all parts of the kingdom.

But, Mandy Ann held her back and whispered, "Can't you done 'have yerself at yer mammy's funeral an' we the only mourners?"

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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