{
    "term": "funeral",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a ceremony, often a religious one, for burying or cremating (= burning) a dead person",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Hundreds of people attended the funeral."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a funeral procession"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a funeral march *(= a sad piece of music suitable for funerals)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A clergyman friend of the family conducted the funeral."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Everyone went back to the house after the service for the funeral gathering."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He read out a poem at her funeral."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The dead man's son arranged the funeral."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The family held a private funeral."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a mass funeral of the victims of the fire"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the flames of the funeral pyre"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Religion and festivals", "Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["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"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody that they, and nobody else, will have to deal with the unpleasant results of their own actions",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfjuːnərəl/",
                "audio": "fu/funeral/funeral__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfjuːnərəl/",
                "audio": "fu/funeral/funeral__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French funeraille, from medieval Latin funeralia, neuter plural of late Latin funeralis, from Latin funus, funer- ‘funeral, death, corpse’."
}