funeral

noun

1. A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

   “Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.”

2. (dated, in-plural)A funeral sermon.

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, uncommon, usually)Alternative spelling of funereal.

   “All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there.”

   “Indeed I felt it altogether beautiful; and, as the "dying day-hymn stole aloft," the dim sun-beams fell, through a vista of naked motionless trees, upon the coffin, which was borne with a slower and more funeral pace than before, in a manner that threw a solemn and visionary light upon the whole procession.”

   “There was something dramatic and theatrical in the very funeral ceremonies with which Demetrius was honored.”

   “The very funeral pageantry disguised behind-the-scenes struggles for control over Sidney's image.”