Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of funeral is as below...

Arval :: Arval (n.) A funeral feast.

Threnode :: Threnode (n.) A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song..

Sutteeism :: Suttee (n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.

Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

Suttee :: Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character..

Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

Toll :: Toll (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell..

Mourner :: Mourner (n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.

Dirge :: Dirge (a.) A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn..

Wyla :: Wyla (n.) A helmeted Australian cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus); -- called also funeral cockatoo.

Infuneral :: Infuneral (v. t.) To inter with funeral rites; to bury.

Mute :: Mute (n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.

Toll :: Toll (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person..

Hearse :: Hearse (n.) 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..

Upholder :: Upholder (n.) An undertaker, or provider for funerals..

Saulie :: Saulie (n.) A hired mourner at a funeral.

Eloge :: Eloge (n.) A panegyrical funeral oration.

Epicede :: Epicede (n.) A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

Achievement :: Achievement (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

Random Fonts

Most Popular