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Funeral vs Postfuneral - What's the difference?

funeral | postfuneral |

As adjectives the difference between funeral and postfuneral

is that funeral is related to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person while postfuneral is after a funeral.

As a noun funeral

is a ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

funeral

English

(wikipedia funeral)

Adjective

(-)
  • Related to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
    • No one likes to go to funerals .
  • (dated, chiefly, in the plural) A funeral sermon.
  • * South
    • Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals .

    Related terms

    * cemetery * funerary * funereal * mortuary

    Derived terms

    * funeral director * funeral parlour

    Anagrams

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    postfuneral

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • After a funeral.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 9, author=Gail Collins, title=Michael, a Foreign Affair, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It used to be known as the “John Garfield Still Dead” syndrome, after the extensive postfuneral coverage of a movie star who had a fatal heart attack in 1952 in the bed of a woman other than his wife. }}