funeral
A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
Noun 2 meanings
A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
“Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.”
A funeral sermon.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”).
FUNERAL at a glance
FUNERAL has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (F 4 + U 1 + N 1 + E 1 + R 1 + A 1 + L 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,737 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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