funeral home

American  

noun

• funeral homes
  plural

1. an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• funeral homes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of funeral home

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40

Example Sentences

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funeral home

Concerns about the treatment of the dead in both mortuary and funeral home settings did not begin with the Robert Bush case.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

At about the same time as police filmed inside the funeral home, Bush was being arrested at Heathrow Airport, having just returned from holiday.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Based in a leafy New Jersey suburb 17 miles west of Wall Street, neighboring a funeral home and an optometrist, Yorkville would seem an unlikely candidate for financial adviser to the president’s namesake company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

“He’s by far the most famous person that ever came out of Central,” said Al Cumbie, 74, the town’s former mayor and manager of the local funeral home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

But I’d never heard of the dead sitting up in the funeral home, at the viewing, in front of all the mourners, and wailing his or her fool head off!

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles