What does funeral home mean?

Definitions for funeral home
fu·ner·al home

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. funeral home, funeral parlor, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral church, funeral-residencenoun

    a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects

GCIDE

  1. funeral homenoun

    An establishment, usually commercial, where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation; called also funeral parlor, mortuary, funeral chapel and informally, undertaker's. The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial, and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing, though present in a casket. Often, some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home, where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead, and express condolence to the family. The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home.

Wiktionary

  1. funeral homenoun

    A mortuary where the friends and relatives of the deceased may attend a wake, or pay their last respects

  2. Etymology: funeral + home

Wikipedia

  1. Funeral home

    A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the dead and their families. These services may include a prepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral.

ChatGPT

  1. funeral home

    A funeral home is a business that provides various services related to the planning, organizing, and conducting of funerals. These services can include, but are not limited to, the preparation and embalming of bodies, conducting burial or cremation services, organizing memorial services, and managing necessary paperwork such as death certificates. Funeral homes often have facilities to accommodate viewings or wakes and may offer services such as grief counseling as well.

Wikidata

  1. Funeral home

    A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the dead and their families. These services may include a prepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of funeral home in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of funeral home in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of funeral home in a Sentence

  1. Annette March-Grier:

    We take them to the funeral home and help them see that if you're going to play the game, you have to realize there is an end to this game, this is our way of trying to reach them before it's too late.

  2. Bill Barnes:

    We had to bring in all of our stakeholders, including the Medical Examiner's Office, the hospitals where the patients are going to be discharged from, and the funeral home directors to identify a solution to the problem.

  3. Magdiel Jorge Castro:

    The funeral services are collapsed. There aren't any coffins, my family was in despair to have a deceased person for 15 hours in their bed in the tropical heat. The funeral home said there were 16 cases like his, people without a place to be buried.

  4. Joseph Ledinh grandfather:

    Every funeral home in New Jersey had the same product, hillenbrand, Matthews International and Aurora controlled the market. It was frustrating, but there was nothing we could do -- we had to buy that day.

  5. Howard Fields:

    When the COVID virus came it was almost like it was inspirational to make that because there are so many family members – that were afraid to even come into the funeral home that wanted to see their deceased loved ones.


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