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Funeral

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Noun

1. funeral

a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated

Example Sentences:
'hundreds of people attended his funeral'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Funeral

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noun
1. 
a. 
a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
b. 
(as modifier)
a funeral service
2. 
a procession of people escorting a corpse to burial
3. informal
worry; concern; affair
that's your funeral

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Funeral

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adjective
1. 
of or having to do with a funeral
noun
2. 
the ceremonies connected with burial or cremation of the dead; obsequies
3. 
the procession accompanying the body to the place of burial or cremation

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Funeral

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n.
1.
a. A ceremony or group of ceremonies held in connection with the burial or cremation of a dead person.
b. Archaic The eulogy delivered or the sermon preached at such a ceremony.
2. The burial procession accompanying a body to the grave.
3. An end or a cessation of existence.
4. Slang A source of concern or care: If he doesn't meet the deadline, it's his funeral.
adj.
Of, relating to, or resembling a funeral.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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