funeral
ceremony for a person who has died
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Summary
funeral ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,695 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: rite[2], ceremony[3]
- Part of: funeral rite[4]
- Commons category: Funerals[5]
- Has part(s): burial[6], cremation[7], burial at sea[8], unmarked grave[9], burial tree[10], funeral invoice[11], coffin[12], tombstone[13], hearse[14], funeral procession[15]
- Topic's main category: Category:Funerals[16]
- Commons gallery: Funeral[17]
- Depicted by: Funeral of St. Jerome[18]
- Described by source: Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[19], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Pauly–Wissowa[23], Dictionnaire Infernal[24], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[25], Otto's encyclopedia[26], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[27], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[28], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[29], Dresdner Hefte[30]
- Manifestation of: death[31]
- Equivalent class: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001215[32]
- Different from: Matus[33], burial[34]
- Practiced by: pallbearer[35]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[36]
Body
Influence
Things named for funeral include funeral potatoes[37].
Why It Matters
funeral has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] funeral is known by 98 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]
Entities named for funeral include funeral potatoes[37].