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单词 funeral
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funeral

noun
 
/ˈfjuːnərəl/
/ˈfjuːnərəl/
Idioms
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  1. 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 Examples
    • 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
    Topics Religion and festivalsc1, Life stagesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • family
    • private
    • public
    verb + funeral
    • attend
    • come to
    • go to
    funeral + verb
    • be held
    • take place
    funeral + noun
    • ceremony
    • mass
    • obsequies
    preposition
    • at a/​the funeral
    See full entry
    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
  1. (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
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