funeral

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. obsequies; burial, interment, entombment.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Rites for the dead]

Syn. burial, interment, last rites, obsequies, memorial service, burial ceremony, sepulture, entombment, mortuary rites, requiem, inhumation, cremation, funeral solemnities, funeral service.

2. [Those attending a dead body]

Syn. cortege, mourners, pall bearers, funeral procession, funeral train.

• be one's funeral,

Syn. harm oneself, hurt, damage; see destroy 1 , ruin 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

obsequies, exequies, burial, inhumation, interment, entombment, last rites, services, cremation. ''The last bedtime story.''—Leonard Levinson. ''A consolation to the living than of any service to the dead.''—Saint Augustine.

WORD FIND

• announcement: obituary

• automobile/coach that carries coffin to cemetery: hearse

• bell toll signaling death: knell

• bugle call at military funeral: taps

• burial at sea: deep six

• burial cloth or sheet: shroud, winding sheet

• Catholic Mass for: Requiem Mass

• churchyard gateway sheltering coffin at service: lich gate

• coffin carriers: pallbearers

• euphemism, burying: lay to rest

• friends, relatives of deceased: bereaved, mourners

• mourn aloud by weeping, wailing, etc.: lament

• pile of wood on which corpse is burned: pyre

• praise for deceased: eulogy

• prayer for deceased: requiescat

• procession: cortege, death march

• RIP: rest in peace

• song of lament: dirge, elegy, requiem, threnody

• undertaker: mortician watch or viewing of the deceased, often with

• festivities: wake, vigil

see cemetery, coffin, death, mourning