FUNERAL

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

funeral; obsequy

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)

Derivation:

funerary (of or for or relating to a funeral)

funereal (suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial)

 Context examples 

To-morrow will see the funeral; and so will end this one more "mystery of the sea."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It will be much more like a funeral, than a wedding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now that we’ve everything cleaned up, we’ll have the funeral and get the decks cleared of useless lumber.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Ask what hour the Poultney Square funeral takes place to-morrow.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Liberian officials say most of the 31 patients infected attended the April 22 funeral of a religious leader in Sinoe County.

(Experts Link Fatal Mystery Illness in Liberia to Meningitis Bacteria, VOA)

The funeral procession was anything but a pageant.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Carriages were seen on their street only for weddings and funerals.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This gave them the seeming of ghostly masques, undertakers in a spectral world at the funeral of some ghost.

(White Fang, by Jack London)