funerals
- 1Plural of funeral.
The priest officiated at two funerals on the same difficult afternoon.
Military funerals often include a rifle salute and the folding of a flag.
Note
A regular plural that once carried a meaning of its own: in the plural, the word could name a funeral sermon, the address preached for the dead, rather than the ceremony itself. That use is now dated, so in older writing funerals may refer to what was preached, not to the gathering. In current English it simply counts ceremonies, as in two funerals or military funerals.
funerals is a form of funeral
funeral, noun: A ceremony to honor and remember someone who has died, typically distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body. Full entry
- Forms
- funeralfunerals plural
- Spelling
- funeral → funerals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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