Funeral
Funeral noun - A ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated.
Last rites and funeral are semantically related. in ceremony for the dead topic. In some cases you can use "Last rites" instead a noun "Funeral".
Nearby Word: funerary
Last rites
Last rites noun - A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation.
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Synonyms for Last rites
Funeral and last rites are semantically related. You can use "Funeral" instead a noun phrase "Last rites".
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Related pairs
- burial and funeral
- burial and last rites
- vigil and funeral
- vigil and last rites
- wake and funeral
- wake and last rites
- interment and funeral
- interment and last rites
- sepulture and funeral
- sepulture and last rites
- burying and funeral
- burying and last rites
- entombment and funeral
- entombment and last rites
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Stealth-Based Mission: The Taken King level Last Rites where you infiltrate Crota's funeral and steal what is left of his soul.
Source: Video Game / Destiny - The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" has the titular young man (played by a very young James Best) wake up at his own funeral.
Source: Damaged Soul - In The Twilight Zone episode "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank", a dead man revives in the middle of his funeral, which leads the townspeople to believe that his corpse was possessed by a demon.
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