FUNERAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does funeral mean? • FUNERAL (noun)
The noun FUNERAL has 1 sense:
1. a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
Familiarity information: FUNERAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FUNERAL (noun)
Meaning:
A ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context example:
hundreds of people attended his funeral
Hypernyms ("funeral" is a kind of...):
ceremonial; ceremonial occasion; ceremony; observance (a formal event performed on a special occasion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "funeral"):
burial; entombment; inhumation; interment; sepulture (the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave)
sky burial (a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures)
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