English word senses marked with topical category "Funeral"
Parent categories: Death, Industries, Society, Body, Life, Business, Human, Nature, Economics, Social sciences, Sciences
Total 50 word senses
- Janazah (Noun) A Muslim funeral prayer, part of the Islamic funeral ritual.
- Janazah (Noun) A bier or a coffin used to transport and bury the body of a dead person.
- Taps (Proper name) A bugle call played by the United States Armed Forces at dusk, during flag ceremonies, and at military funerals.
- arval (Noun) A funeral feast or wake at which bread and ale was served, traditional in Scotland, the North of England, and among the Norse.
- bier (Noun) A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
- celebration of life (Noun) A memorial service focusing on the positive aspects of a deceased individual's life rather than on mourning the individual's death.
- chautha (Noun) A day of mourning and prayers for the dead, the fourth day after the funeral.
- dirge (Noun) A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
- elegy (Noun) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
- epicede (Noun) An elegy; an ode to someone deceased.
- eulogise (Verb) To praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
- eulogist (Noun) A speaker who delivers a funeral oration (eulogy) for a deceased person.
- eulogize (Verb) To praise, celebrate or pay homage to (someone), especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
- eulogizer (Noun) A person who eulogizes.
- eulogy (Noun) An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.
- funeral (Noun) A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased individiual, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
- funeral director (Noun) An undertaker; one who arranges funerals.
- funeral home (Noun) Business that provides interment and funeral services for the dead.
- funeral parlor (Noun) A mortuary or funeral home.
- funerary (Adjective) Of or relating to a funeral.
- half-mast (Noun) The state of being partially erect
- half-staff (Noun) Half-mast.
- hearse (Noun) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
- hearse (Noun) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
- hearse (Noun) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
- hearse (Noun) A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
- honour guard (Noun) a ceremonial assembly of uniformed military personnel performing the duty of escort or exhibition, i.e. accompany a casket during a funeral procession.
- in memoriam (Noun) An announcement or composition etc. in memory of a deceased person.
- kkoktu (Noun) A Korean funerary figure believed to protect, serve and care for the deceased in the immediate afterlife.
- last respects (Noun) Final visit to a person nearing death, or to a person who has just died.
- memorial service (Noun) An informal service honoring a deceased person, especially one that does not adhere to the traditional customs of a funeral.
- mortician (Noun) An undertaker or funeral director; especially, one who is also the embalmer or cremator.
- mortuary (Adjective) Of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.
- mortuary (Noun) A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home.
- mortuary (Noun) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
- mourner (Noun) Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
- mourner (Noun) Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.
- obsequy (Noun) A funeral rite or service.
- pallbearer (Noun) One called upon to carry or bear the casket at a funeral.
- pauper's funeral (Noun) A funeral paid for by the state when the estate or the relatives of the deceased person cannot provide sufficient funds to cover the cost.
- pay one's last respects (Verb) To visit the place where the remains of a dead person has been prepared for burial or cremation, either as a private act of remembrance or as a public display to others.
- pay one's respects (Verb) To grieve or mourn a person to a degree appropriate for one's relationship; to attend someone's funeral.
- public health funeral (Noun) Synonym of pauper's funeral
- pyre (Noun) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
- reconstructive mortician (Noun) A mortician who performs cosmetic work on dead bodies to make them presentable for viewing at a funeral.
- requiem (Noun) A large or dangerous shark, specifically, (zoology) a member of the family Carcharhinidae.
- sendoff (Noun) A party to recognize the passing (death) of a friend and allow survivors to reminisce about the person's life.
- undertaker (Noun) A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
- undertaking (Noun) The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
- wake (Verb) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
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