Meaning

2 senses
  1. A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

    Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.

    Bestattung, Beerdigung, Begräbnis

    по́хороныpóxorony, погребе́ниеpogrebénije

    по́хоронpóxoron, погре́бpohréb, похова́нняpoxovánnja

  2. (dated, in the plural)A funeral sermon.

More definitions
  • a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated

Examples

349 sentences
  1. Tom couldn't afford to pay for his mother's funeral.

    Том не міг собі дозволити заплатити за поховання матері.

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  2. I saw Tom at the funeral.

    Я бачила Тома на похованні.

    ruЯ видел Тома на похоронах.

    deIch habe Tom auf der Beerdigung gesehen.

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  3. I attended his funeral.

    Я був на похованні.

    ruЯ присутствовал на его похоронах.

    deIch habe seiner Bestattung beigewohnt.

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  4. I didn't attend his funeral.

    Я не пішов на його похорон.

    ruЯ не был на его похоронах.

    deIch war nicht auf seiner Beerdigung.

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  5. Was Tom at the funeral?

    Том був на похоронах?

    ruТом был на похоронах?

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Translations

9 languages
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ceremony to honour a deceased person:
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ceremony to honour a deceased person:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerāli

Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437.

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