funer-, funero-, fun-

(Latin: burial; death rites, burial ceremony)

funebrial (adjective), more funebrial, most funebrial
A reference to a funeral, burial service, or entombment.
funeral (FYOO nuhr uhl) (adjective) (not comparable)
Pertaining to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person: A funeral service is usually held in connection with the burial or cremation of those who have passed on from mortal existence.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

— Yogi Berra
funeral (s) (noun), funerals (pl)
1. A rite held to mark the burial or cremation of a corpse; especially, a ceremony held immediately before burial, or the placement of the urn containing the cremation ashes of someone who has died.
2. A procession of mourners following a dead body to its place of burial or cremation.
3. The ceremony or group of ceremonies held in connection with the burial or cremation of a dead person: There were several people who attended the funeral of Sam's neighbor.
4. An end, or a cessation, to the existence of something.
5. A source of concern or care: If Sharon doesn't complete this assignment, it will be her funeral."
funeral arrangements
A funeral director's conference with a family for the purpose of completing financial and service details of a funeral.
funeral chapel
A mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects.
funeral customs
Rituals surrounding the death of a human being and the subsequent disposition of the corpse.

Such rites may serve to mark the passage of a person from life into death, to secure the welfare of the dead, to comfort the living, and to protect the living from the dead.

funeral director
A professional who prepares for a burial or other disposition of dead human bodies.

He supervises such burial or disposition, maintains a funeral establishment for such purposes, and counsels with survivors.

funeral home
A building used for the purpose of embalming, arranging, and conducting funerals.
funeral undertaker
Someone whose business is the management of funerals; a mortician.
funeral urn
The receptacle, or container, in which the ashes of a dead person are placed after cremation.
funerary
Relating to, or suitable, for a burial or a funeral; such as, a funerary urn.
funeration
The act of burying with funeral rites.
funereal (fyoo NIR ee uhl) (adjective), more funereal, most funereal
1. A reference to a somber or mournful situation which is suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial: There were many funereal emotions when Catherine attended her mother's internment at the cemetery.
2. Pertaining to being very slow, solemn, mournful, or dismal: It was obvious that there was a funereal gloom and sadness when Karl's father was being buried.
3. Referring to a solemn and sad occasion for the departure of someone from this life: There was a store which was stocked with several funereal kinds of clothing that would be appropriate to wear to the state burial of the former governor.
A reference to a solemn and sad occasion for the departure of someone from this life.
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An appropriately sad atmosphere.
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funereally
A reference to a funeral or suggesting a funeral.
funest (adjective), more funest, most funest
1. Referring to something that can cause death or be fatal and dreadful: The doctor made a funest prediction regarding the cancer that the patient had.
2. Etymology: from French funeste; from Latin funestus; from funus, "a funeral, death".
Fatal; dire; deadly.
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Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "bury, burial, cemetery, grave; sleeping place": coimetro-; Epitaphs; sepulc-; sheol; tapho-.