Funeral vs. Memorial

Funeralnoun

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.’;

Memorialnoun

A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.

Funeralnoun

A funeral sermon.

Memorialnoun

A service of remembrance or commemoration.

Funeraladjective

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Memorialnoun

(legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.

Funeralnoun

The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; - formerly used in the plural.

‘King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster.’;

Memorialadjective

Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.

‘a memorial building’;

Funeralnoun

The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

Memorialadjective

Contained in the memory.

‘a memorial possession’;

Funeralnoun

A funeral sermon; - usually in the plural.

‘Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals.’;

Memorialadjective

Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

Funeraladjective

Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.

Memorialadjective

Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.

‘There high in air, memorial of my name,Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.’;

Funeralnoun

a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated;

‘hundreds of people attended his funeral’;

Memorialadjective

Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.

Funeralnoun

a ceremony or service held shortly after a person's death, usually including the person's burial or cremation

‘in the afternoon, he'd attended a funeral’; ‘a funeral service’;

Memorialadjective

Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

‘This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.’;

Funeralnoun

a sermon delivered at a funeral

‘the community would call him to preach the funeral’;

Memorialnoun

Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.

‘Churches have names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself.’;

Funeralnoun

a procession of mourners at a burial

‘her funeral had to pass’;

Memorialnoun

A memorandum; a record.

Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor.

Memorialnoun

A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., - often accompanied with a petition.

Memorialnoun

Memory; remembrance.

‘Precious is the memorial of the just.’;

Memorialnoun

A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

Memorialnoun

a recognition of meritorious service

Memorialnoun

a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority

Memorialnoun

a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

Memorialnoun

a statue or structure established to remind people of a person or event

‘a memorial to General Robert E. Lee’;

Memorialnoun

intended to commemorate someone or something

‘a memorial service in the dead man's honour’;

Memorialnoun

a statement of facts, especially as the basis of a petition

‘the Council sent a strongly worded memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’;

Memorialnoun

a record or memoir

‘Mrs Carlyle's Letters and Memorials’;

Memorial

A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or works of art such as sculptures, statues or fountains and parks.