FUNERAL

[noun] [C] - a (usually religious) ceremony for burying or burning the body of a dead personThe entire village went to the church for Jim's funeral.She was allowed out of prison to attend her sister's funeral.William Vaughn, 29, was one of the 75 mourners at the funeral.For a lot of people, baptisms, weddings and funerals are the only time they go to church.Passers-by stopped to watch the funeral procession.(informal dated) "But if he doesn't come in this afternoon he won't know what we're doing at the meeting next week ." "That's his funeral (= that is his fault so it does not worry me if he suffers)."(esp. US and ANZ) A funeral director is a person whose job it is to arrange for the bodies of dead people to be buried or burned.A funeral parlour /(US also) mortuary or funeral home is a place where the bodies of dead people are prepared to be buried or burned.