funeral
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437. Displaced native Old English līcþeġnung (literally “dead body service”).
- derived from *dʰew-✻
- derived from fūnus
- derived from fūnerālis
- derived from fūnerālia
- borrowed from funerailles
Definitions
A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial…
A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
- Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.
A funeral sermon.
Alternative spelling of funereal.
- All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there.
- There was something dramatic and theatrical in the very funeral ceremonies with which Demetrius was honored.
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Derived
arrange someone's funeral, cyberfuneral, funeral biscuit, funeral celebrant, funeral director, funeral doom, funeral door, funeral-goer, funeralgoer, funeral home, funeralist, funeralize, funeral march, funeral parlor, funeral parlour, funeral pie, funeral potatoes, funeral procession, funeral pyre, funeral rite, funeral service, funeral store, it's one's funeral, it's someone's funeral, jazz funeral, mass funeral, Mormon funeral potatoes, nonfuneral, pauper's funeral, paupers' funerals, postfuneral, prefuneral, public health funeral, state funeral, the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral, the corpse at every funeral, you'll be late for your own funeral
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A definitional loop anchored at funeral. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at funeral. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at funeral
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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