funeral
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
funeral/ˈfjuːnərəl/
▶noun a ceremony held shortly after a person's death, usually including the person's burial or cremation.
■ archaic or literary a procession of mourners at a burial.
– phrases
it's your funeral informal said to warn someone that an unwise act is their own responsibility.
it's your funeral informal said to warn someone that an unwise act is their own responsibility.
– origin ME: from OFr. funeraille, from med. L. funeralia, neut. pl. of late L. funeralis, from L. funus, funer- ‘funeral, death, corpse’.
'funeral' also found in these Oxford entries:
burial
- columbarium
- coronach
- cortège
- dead march
- dirge
- epicedium
- epitaph
- exequies
- firing party
- funeral director
- funeral parlour
- funeral pyre
- funeral urn
- funerary
- funereal
- hearse
- keen
- knell
- lachrymal vase
- minute gun
- mourner
- mute
- obsequies
- pall-bearer
- pay
- phoenix
- pyre
- removal
- sati
- shiva
- sky burial
- tap
- visitation
- wake
- weeper
