They entrusted all their children to me—I often carried little Hugh about—I took him up to the Funeral of Queen Victoria, and held him in my arms above the crowd.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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— of, relating to, or constituting a funeral
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Macmillan
— a ceremony that takes place after someone dies, usually including a religious ceremony, and the formal process of taking the body to the place where it is buried or cremated
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Collins
— A funeral is the ceremony that is held when the body of someone who has died is buried or cremated.
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1 use of ‘funeral’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster