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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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 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

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

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

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.
Judi Dench

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Charles Baudelaire

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John Burroughs

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.
Demetri Martin

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

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
David Herbert Lawrence

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
George Ade

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
Jimmy Breslin

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

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

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
Anne Rice

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
Paul Samuelson

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
Natalie Portman

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
Olin Miller

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Charles Lamb

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.
Steve Buyer

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.
Frank McCourt

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
Peter King

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Funeral Translations

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

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