Definition of Funeral

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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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Funeral Quotations

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

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

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

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T. S. Eliot

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

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.
David Letterman

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher

Funeral Translations

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

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