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PALLBEARER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pallbearer mean? 

PALLBEARER (noun)
  The noun PALLBEARER has 1 sense:

1. one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeralplay

  Familiarity information: PALLBEARER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PALLBEARER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bearer; pallbearer

Hypernyms ("pallbearer" is a kind of...):

griever; lamenter; mourner; sorrower (a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died))


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