Funeral

Adjective

 * 1) Being related to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person.

Noun

 * 1) A ceremony to honour of a deceased person.
 * No one likes to go to funerals.

Adjectives for Funeral
leafy; lugubrious; genteel.

Verbs for Funeral
announce—; arrange—; ease—; eulogize at —; expend on—; follow—; reign at—; mourn at—; observe—; officiate at—; preside at—; proceed at—; toll at—.

Thesaurus
burial, burial at sea, burying, caravan, cavalcade, cinerary, column, cortege, cremation, dead march, deep six, dirge, dirgelike, dismal, dress parade, entombment, epitaphic, exequial, exequies, feral, flyover, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral procession, funerary, funereal, inhumation, interment, last post, line, march past, mortuary, motorcade, mournful, muffled drum, mule train, necrological, obituary, obsequial, obsequies, pack train, parade, pomp, procession, promenade, review, sepulchral, sepulture, skimmington, stream, string, taps, train

Etymology
1437, from funérailles:, from  funeralia:, originally neuter plural of  funeralis:, from  funere:, ablative of funus:, origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from. Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal: is first attested 1725, by influence of funerail:, from  funereus:, from funus:.

Adjective

 * Breton: kañv noun in apposition
 * Bulgarian: погребален (pogrebalen)
 * Chinese: 葬 (zàng); 葬礼/葬禮 (zàng lĭ)
 * Croatian:
 * Danish: begravelses-
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: hautajais-
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: funeral
 * Italian:, , ,


 * Japanese: 葬式の (soshiki no)
 * Korean: 장례의 (jangrye e)
 * Latin: funeralis
 * Norwegian: begravelses-
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: похоронный, погребальный
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: beri
 * Urdu: mayyat
 * Welsh: angladdol

Noun

 * Arabic: جنازة
 * Armenian: թաղում
 * Bosnian:, ,
 * Breton: obidoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: begravelse, bistættelse
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, maahanpano
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: לוויה levayá
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: pemakaman
 * Interlingua: funeral
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 葬式 (そうしき, soushiki), 葬儀 (そうぎ, sougi)


 * Korean: 장례 (jangrye)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: nom. funus, gen. funeris
 * Latvian: bēres
 * Lithuanian: laidotuvės
 * Norwegian: begravelse, jordfestelse
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: înmormântare, îngropare, înhumare, mormântare
 * Russian:, погребение
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, , спровод , (Islam)
 * Roman:, , sprovod , (Islam)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: جنازہ
 * Welsh: ,

Related terms

 * cemetery
 * funerary
 * funereal
 * mortuary

Derived terms

 * Category:English words derived from: funeral
 * funeral director
 * funeral parlour

Anagrams

 * flaneur
 * frenula

Noun

 * 1) funeral

Synonyms

 * entierro

Related terms

 * funeraria
 * fúnebre