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noun

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as in interment

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adjective

ˈfyün-rəl How to pronounce funeral (audio)
as in weeping
expressing or suggesting mourning a slow and heavy funeral song

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Recent Examples of funeral
Noun
On Sunday, Jordan’s Queen Rania and Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah attended a funeral held for the victims while Jordan’s King Abdullah II visited the injured in the hospital earlier. — Aoife Walsh, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026 Photo by Browner family Family members spent Monday planning his funeral. — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Adjective
Jenson launched a GoFundMe to raise money to cover funeral expenses and provide for Ty. — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 29 Oct. 2026 More than a hundred people had gathered earlier in and around the church for a funeral procession. — Aoife Walsh, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for funeral
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral
  1. interment
  2. weeping
  3. burial
  4. mournful
  5. burying
  6. grieving
  7. entombment
  8. heartbroken
Noun
  • The price for a grave and interment are in addition to the funeral costs.
    — Mimi Hanaoka, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Parker separately ordered city flags to remain at half-staff until sunset on the day of Seiber's interment.
    — James Cirrone , Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of interment
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    — David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Definition of weeping
Noun
  • Advertisement The Kennedys argued that courts have previously recognized families’ interests in protecting their relatives’ burial sites.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Iris' funeral arrangements and burial will be conducted privately at another time.
    — Josh Taylor, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of burial
Adjective
  • Unfortunately, the disembodied feet on my aunt’s staircase were my last spectral sighting and the mournful whistling was my last haunting.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The One About Matthew Perry, a three-part docuseries, out October 27 on Netflix, is more of a celebration of celebrate Perry’s life instead of a mournful tribute or true crime drama about his death and the headline-making trial that followed.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of mournful
Noun
  • One such detail is the prospect of a Gallagher-brothers-style burying of the hatchet for Harry and Prince William.
    — Jamie Timson, TheWeek, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Eaton wildfire survivors’ anger about Southern California Edison’s burying of electric wires in Altadena boiled over Tuesday with residents calling on government officials to temporarily halt the work.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Definition of burying
Adjective
  • There’s so much more loss, so much more grieving, many more regrets.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of grieving
Noun
  • According to legends that circulated in the Middle Ages, the Codex Gigas was created by a monk in Podlažice who sinned and was sentenced to death by immurement—live entombment in a walled enclosure.
    — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Under California’s Health and Safety Code, local governments can establish rules for burial, inurnment and entombment, as well as the maintenance of cemeteries, mausoleums and columbariums.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of entombment
Adjective
  • The heartbroken dad wasn’t home when the child fell out the window.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The death of Sir Patrick Stewart has left Hollywood heartbroken as his co-stars, colleagues, and fellow actors recall rare encounters, days on set, and priceless advice the acting legend shared with them.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of heartbroken

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