noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ family
▪ private
▪
The family held a private ~.
▪ public
▪ church
▪ closed-casket , open-casket (both AmE )
▪ simple
▪ elaborate , large
▪ Catholic , Jewish , etc.
▪ state
▪ military
▪ decent , proper , respectable
▪
His savings were just enough to pay for a respectable ~.
▪ traditional
▪ mass
▪
a mass ~ of the victims of the fire
VERB + FUNERAL
▪ attend , come to , go to
▪ arrange , plan
▪
The dead man's son arranged the ~.
▪ conduct
▪
A clergyman friend of the family conducted the ~.
▪ have
▪
She had a simple ~, as she had requested.
FUNERAL + VERB
▪ be held , take place
▪
The ~ was held in St Mary's Church.
FUNERAL + NOUN
▪ ceremony , mass , obsequies ( formal ), rites , service
▪ oration , sermon , speech
▪ prayer
▪ dirge , march , music
▪ wreath
▪ cortège , procession
▪ party (= the people going to a funeral) ( BrE )
▪
The ~ party arrived to find the church locked.
▪ car
▪ director
▪ chapel , home , parlour/parlor
▪ costs , expenses
▪ arrangements , plans
▪ business , industry
▪ pyre
▪
the flames of the ~ pyre
PREPOSITION
▪ at a/the ~
▪
He read out a poem at her ~.