funeral

Noun

A ceremony for a deceased person.
a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
- "hundreds of people attended his funeral"
A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
A funeral sermon.

Adj

Alternative spelling of funereal.

Examples

Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.
The funeral for his winning streak was quiet, marked by his opponent’s triple-word score.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437.
Displaced native Old English līcþeġnung (literally “dead body service”).

Scrabble Score: 10

funeral: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
funeral: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
funeral: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

funeral: valid Words With Friends Word