Read full poem →Lives to die another day,
And cowards' funerals, when they come
Are not wept so well at home."
Dictionary Entry
A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
In a Sentence
“Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. funerals
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Poetry examples for “funerals”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →There passengers shall stand, and pointing say,
(While the long funerals blacken all the way)
'Lo, these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd,
Read full poem →And in the midst thereof, set[293] my soul going,
That at my funerals some may weeping cry,
"Even as he led his life, so did he die."
Read full poem →Triumphant, o’er the crested palls,
Of her grand family funerals—
Some sepulchre, remote, alone,
Read full poem →And must the first who teaches me
The form of shrouds and funerals, be
Mine own first-born beloved? he