Definitions for funeral

funeral fu·ner·al

Spelling: [fyoo-ner-uh l]
IPA: /ˈfyu nər əl/

Funeral is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in funeral (aeflnru).

Definitions for funeral

noun

  1. the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
  2. a funeral procession.

Idioms

  1. be someone's funeral, Informal. to have unpleasant consequences for someone:

adjective

  1. of or relating to a funeral:

Origin of funeral

1350-1400; Middle English (adj.) Medieval Latin fūnerālis, equivalent to Latin fūner-, stem of fūnus funeral rites + -ālis -al1; (noun), from early 16th cent

Examples for funeral

But it is sorrow and trouble that brings you the nearest, and it was a funeral that done it with us.

Knock at the door, whence the sable line of the funeral is next to issue!

Renny, give me that revolver, and I'll show you more fun than a funeral.

And it made us hush down, too, and talk low, like people at a funeral.

The truest words at the funeral were those of young Jaden, as quoted by the governor.

Yet even after the funeral protest, de Blasio was booed and heckled while addressing a new class of recruits as well.

His funeral had, however, been performed with full solemnity.

As far as he is concerned, they're preparing his obituary and he doesn't care to attend the funeral.

Castro actually flew up to Montreal to be a pallbearer at the 2000 funeral of a beloved Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.

Those who are not working on Sunday will almost certainly attend the funeral for Liu.

Word Value for funeral
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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