funeral

Meaning of funeral

noun
  1. a 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
    a funeral service

late Middle English: from Old French funeraille, from medieval Latin funeralia, neuter plural of late Latin funeralis, from Latin funus, funer- ‘funeral, death, corpse’.

Information about funeral

Hyphenation of funeral

fu-neral

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • funeral is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

funeral synonyms

Meaning a ceremony at which someone's body is buried; a funeral:

burial

Meaning put or hide underground:

burying

Meaning the burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites:

interment

Meaning the placing of a dead body in a tomb; interment:

entombment

Meaning the action of sending a person to prison or a psychiatric hospital:

committal

Meaning the action or practice of burying the dead; the fact of being buried:

inhumation

Meaning the disposal of a dead person's body by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony:

cremation

Meaning funeral rites:

obsequies, exequies

Meaning (especially in Ireland) a party held after a funeral:

wake

Meaning a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray:

vigil

Meaning burial; interment:

sepulture

funeral antonyms

Meaning the action of digging up something buried, especially a corpse:

exhumation

Translation of funeral

Anagrams of funeral

earnful, frenula, furlane

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