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funeral

noun
 
🔊/ˈfjuːnərəl/
🔊/ˈfjuːnərəl/
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  1. a ceremony, often a religious one, for burying or cremating (= burning) a dead person葬礼；丧礼；出殡
    • Hundreds of people attended the funeral.数百人参加了葬礼。🔊🔊
    • a funeral procession送葬队伍
    • a funeral march (= a sad piece of music suitable for funerals)丧礼进行曲
    Extra Examples
    • A clergyman friend of the family conducted the funeral.这家人的一位牧师朋友主持了葬礼。
    • Everyone went back to the house after the service for the funeral gathering.葬礼后所有人都回到了屋里完聚。
    • He read out a poem at her funeral.他在她的葬礼上朗读了一首诗。
    • The dead man's son arranged the funeral.死者的儿子安排了葬礼。
    • The family held a private funeral.这家人举行了一个私人葬礼。
    • a mass funeral of the victims of the fire火灾遇难者的集体葬礼
    • the flames of the funeral pyre火葬柴堆燃烧的火焰
    Topics Religion and festivalsc1, Life stagesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • family
    • private
    • public
    • …
    verb + funeral
    • attend
    • come to
    • go to
    • …
    funeral + verb
    • be held
    • take place
    funeral + noun
    • ceremony
    • mass
    • obsequies
    • …
    preposition
    • at a/​the funeral
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French funeraille, from medieval Latin funeralia, neuter plural of late Latin funeralis, from Latin funus, funer- ‘funeral, death, corpse’.
Idioms
it’s your funeral
  1. (informal) used to tell somebody that they, and nobody else, will have to deal with the unpleasant results of their own actions你这是自找麻烦
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