funeral
noun /ˈfjuːnərəl/
/ˈfjuːnərəl/
Idioms - a ceremony, often a religious one, for burying or cremating (= burning) a dead person
- Hundreds of people attended the funeral.
- a funeral procession
- a funeral march (= a sad piece of music suitable for funerals)
Extra ExamplesTopics Religion and festivalsc1, Life stagesc1- A clergyman friend of the family conducted the funeral.
- Everyone went back to the house after the service for the funeral gathering.
- He read out a poem at her funeral.
- The dead man's son arranged the funeral.
- The family held a private funeral.
- a mass funeral of the victims of the fire
- the flames of the funeral pyre
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- family
- private
- public
- …
- attend
- come to
- go to
- …
- be held
- take place
- ceremony
- mass
- obsequies
- …
- at a/the funeral
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French funeraille, from medieval Latin funeralia, neuter plural of late Latin funeralis, from Latin funus, funer- ‘funeral, death, corpse’.
Idioms
it’s your funeral
- (informal) used to tell somebody that they, and nobody else, will have to deal with the unpleasant results of their own actions
Wordfinder
- ashes
- cemetery
- coffin
- cremation
- die
- funeral
- grave
- hearse
- morgue
- mourn