funeral
Meaning of funeral
- 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
- It is a name.
- The plural form of funeral is: funerals.
- Languages in which funeral is used:
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Catalan
GalicianHyphenation 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:
Meaning put or hide underground:
Meaning the burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites:
Meaning the placing of a dead body in a tomb; interment:
Meaning the action of sending a person to prison or a psychiatric hospital:
Meaning the action or practice of burying the dead; the fact of being buried:
Meaning the disposal of a dead person's body by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony:
Meaning funeral rites:
Meaning (especially in Ireland) a party held after a funeral:
Meaning a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray:
Meaning burial; interment:
funeral antonyms
Meaning the action of digging up something buried, especially a corpse:
Translation of funeral
- German: Beerdigung, Begräbnis, Beisetzung, Bestattung
- Italian: funerale
- French: funérailles, obsèques, sépulture
- Portuguese: funeral
- Spanish: funeral, entierro
Anagrams of funeral
Words that rhyme with funeral
eral, Liberal, antiliberal, illiberal, impuberal, intertuberal, liberal, neoliberal, nonliberal, overliberal, postpuberal, preliberal, prepuberal, pseudoliberal, puberal, semiliberal, subtuberal, tuberal, ultraliberal, unliberal, brachyceral, carceral, cardiovisceral, ceral, cerebrovisceral, cheiceral, cheliceral, extravisceral, glyceral, neurovisceral, nonvisceral, parietovisceral, perivisceral, pleurovisceral, plurivisceral, rhopaloceral, somaticovisceral, unvisceral, visceral, Falderal, Federal, Inderal, antifederal, bederal, confederal, falderal, federal, foederal, ganoderal, hederal