funeral home

noun

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of funeral home¹

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40

Example Sentences

But when the opportunity came along to pitch Toyota, she leaned on a lesson she learned listening to her father take calls at the funeral home all hours of the day.

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She worked as an embalmer and hospice therapist and was the director of a funeral home.

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According to Mr. Orr, Diggs began using the funeral home’s funds to “pay for many of his personal expenses.”

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But two years later they discovered the ashes were not his - and police later found their son's body, still at the funeral home.

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Maybe a ghost in the funeral home late at night?

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