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Synonyms for funeral
ˈfyu nər əlfu·ner·al
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Princeton's WordNet
funeralnoun
a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
"hundreds of people attended his funeral"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
funeralnoun
funeralnoun
Synonyms:
obsequies, exequies, funeral solemnities, funeral rites
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "funeral":
burial, funerals, funerary, funereal, mortuary, undertaker, escorting, interment, consolation, knell
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#5132 | funeral | |
#11146 | burial | |
#26016 | funerals | |
#27441 | consolation | |
#32170 | mortuary | |
#33698 | interment | |
#39740 | undertaker | |
#54431 | escorting | |
#68341 | knell | |
#76756 | funerary | |
#125405 | funereal |
How to use funeral in a sentence?
Its difficult. His [Isaiah] birthday is Friday so he would have been 24 so I just feel like we should have been planning for his birthday to celebrate his life. Instead, Im planning a funeral for him. Nobody should have to bury their kids. No parent should have to bury their kids at all.
I had hoped they would find State Department in their hearts to let me be there for my daughter's funeral, state Department's very sad. She was my princess. She will always be my princess.
We don't want to be specific as to the funeral being the reason for the death. We are still investigating and putting our acts together to know what happened.
Harry was born into a marriage that was falling apart, and it’s a marriage that played out on the world stage… The dirty laundry is right out there… Then at age 12, he has to walk behind his mother’s coffin in front of 2 billion people watching from around the world. He has to shake the hands of people who are weeping, who haven’t even met his mother. And yet he has to hold it together. Prince Harry (center) with his brother Prince William and father Prince Charles at Princess Diana's funeral. (Reuters) That plays forward to today in terms of why Harry wants to be so protective of Meghan. When the British press were frankly being racist about her arrival to the U.K. and into the royal family, Harry issues a statement essentially saying 'back off.' And they did back off. He couldn’t protect his mother as a 12-year-old boy, but he is determined to protect Meghan. And it comes as no surprise that he and his brother have a big distrust of the media.
It was two years after the passing of my grandfather at about the same time now, so in the midst of my family trying to figure out funeral plans and wakes and dealing with all that, getting the call today and having this moment with them was indescribable.
Translations for funeral
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- begrafnisAfrikaans
- جنازة, مأتمArabic
- dəfn, cənazəAzerbaijani
- пахава́нне, хаўту́рыBelarusian
- погреба́лен, погребе́ниеBulgarian
- obidoùBreton
- funerals, funeral, enterramentCatalan, Valencian
- pohřeb, pohřebníCzech
- angladd, angladdol, cynhebrwngWelsh
- begravelse, bistættelse, begravelses-Danish
- Beerdigung, Begräbnis, Bestattung, BeisetzungGerman
- κηδείαGreek
- entierro, funeralSpanish
- matusedEstonian
- جنازهPersian
- hautajais-, hautajaisetFinnish
- funéraire, obsèques, funéraillesFrench
- funeralGalician
- לוויהHebrew
- जनाज़ा, क्रिया कर्मHindi
- temetésHungarian
- թաղումArmenian
- funeralInterlingua
- pemakamanIndonesian
- útförIcelandic
- funereo, funerario, funerale, funebre, mortuarioItalian
- [[葬式]]の, 葬儀, 葬式Japanese
- დაკრძალვაGeorgian
- қою, жерлеуKazakh
- បុណ្យខ្មោច, ពិធីបុណ្យសពKhmer
- 장례, 장례식, [[장례]]의Korean
- چهماوهرKurdish
- тажияKyrgyz
- funeralisLatin
- BegriefnesLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ການປົງສົບLao
- laidotuvėsLithuanian
- bēresLatvian
- tangihangaMāori
- по́гребMacedonian
- оршуулга, оршуулгынMongolian
- pemakaman, pengebumianMalay
- ဈာပနBurmese
- begrafenisDutch
- jordfestelse, begravelse, begravelses-Norwegian
- yóóʼ eʼelnééhNavajo, Navaho
- pogrzebowy, pogrzebPolish
- fúnebre, funeral, funéreoPortuguese
- îngropare, mormântal, sepulcral, înhumare, mormântare, funerar, înmormântareRomanian
- погребе́ние, по́хороны, погреба́льный, похоро́нныйRussian
- sàhrana, dženáza, pògreb, по̀греб, pògrebnī, по̀гребнӣ, спро̀вод, са̀храна, џена́за, spròvodSerbo-Croatian
- pohrebSlovak
- pogrebSlovene
- funeralAlbanian
- begravningSwedish
- ҷаноза, дафнTajik
- งานศพThai
- jynazaTurkmen
- defin, cenazeTurkish
- по́хорони, погре́бUkrainian
- کریاکرم, جنازہUrdu
- dafn marosimi, dafnUzbek
- đám tangVietnamese
- etermintWalloon
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