单词 | funeral |
释义 | funeral/ˈfjuːn(ə)r(ə)l /noun 1A ceremony or service held shortly after a person’s death, usually including the person’s burial or cremation: in the afternoon, he’d attended a funeral [as modifier]: a funeral service...
Synonyms burial, burying, interment, entombment, committal, inhumation, laying to rest, consignment to the grave; cremation; funeral rites, obsequies, last offices; wake, vigil rare sepulture, exequies 1.1US rare A sermon delivered at a funeral: the community would call him to preach the funeral...
1.2 archaic or literary A procession of mourners at a burial: her funeral had to pass...
Phrasesit's your funeral OriginLate Middle English: from Old French funeraille, from medieval Latin funeralia, neuter plural of late Latin funeralis, from Latin funus, funer- 'funeral, death, corpse'. |
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