funeral

US: /ˈfjunɝəɫ/
UK: /fjˈuːnəɹə‍l/


English Vietnamese dictionary


funeral /'fju:nərəl/
  • tính từ
    • (thuộc) sự chôn cất, dùng trong sự chôn cất; (thuộc) đám tang; dùng trong đám tang
      • a funeral pile (pyre): giàn thiêu (xác người chết)
      • a funeral oration: bài điếu văn
  • danh từ
    • lễ tang; sự chôn cất
    • đám tang; đoàn người đưa ma
    • (thông tục) việc phiền toái; việc riêng
      • that's your funeral: đó là việc riêng của anh

Advanced English dictionary


+ noun
a ceremony, usually a religious one, for burying or CREMATING (= burning) a dead person: Hundreds of people attended the funeral. + a funeral procession + a funeral march (= a sad piece of music suitable for funerals)
Idioms: it's your funeral (informal) used to tell sb that they, and nobody else, will have to deal with the unpleasant results of their own actions

Thesaurus dictionary


n.
obsequies, exequies; burial, interment, sepulture, entombment, inhumation; cremation:
It is fitting to wear black when attending a funeral.

Collocation dictionary


ADJ.

church | family | simple | state | respectable
His savings were just enough to pay for a respectable funeral.
| mass
a mass funeral of the victims of the fire

VERB + FUNERAL

attend, come to, go to | arrange
The dead man's son arranged the funeral.
| conduct
A clergyman friend of the family conducted the funeral.
| have
She had a simple funeral, as she had requested.

FUNERAL + VERB

take place

FUNERAL + NOUN

ceremony, mass, rites, service | oration, sermon | cort
e
ge, procession | gathering
Everyone went back to the house after the service for the funeral gathering.
| car | director | home, parlour | costs, expenses | arrangements | business, industry | pyre
the flames of the funeral pyre

PREP.

at a/the ~
He gave the address at her funeral.


Concise English dictionary


funerals'fjuːnərəl
noun
+a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated