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Definition of Funeral
Funeral
The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural.

The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.

Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven Wright

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
Erma Bombeck

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Jerome K. Jerome

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
James Russell Lowell

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck Palahniuk



Funeral Translations
funeral in Italian is sepoltura, funerale
funeral in Norwegian is begravelse
funeral in Spanish is funeral, entierro


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