funeral
Other forms: funerals
A funeral is a ceremony to bury or cremate the dead. If you go to a funeral, wear black and try not to seem like you're having fun.
Funeral comes from the Latin root fūnus, for "dead body," and so a funeral is the ritual that surrounds taking care of a dead body. Depending on the dead person's beliefs, there will often be a representative of a religion there to honor them in a traditional way. Sometimes we use funeral for dead things other than dead people. If you just gave a really bad party, you could call it a funeral for your social life.
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a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated“hundreds of people attended his funeral”types:sky buriala traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vulturestype of:ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observancea formal event performed on a special occasion
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Vocabulary from "Beowulf" (translated by by Gummere).
This word list honors the royal occupant of the world's most famous tomb, and one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time, Tutankhamun — King Tut — the final pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt.
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