funerals
Meaning of funerals
- 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 funerals
- It is a name.
- The singular form of funerals is: funeral.
- Languages in which funerals is used:
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Hyphenation of funerals
fu-ner-als
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- funerals is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
funerals 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:
funerals antonyms
Meaning the action of digging up something buried, especially a corpse:
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