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funeral-goer

funeral-goer is the alternative form of funeralgoer.

Meaning of funeralgoer

Noun

funeralgoer (plural funeralgoers)

  1. One who attends a funeral.
    • To the accompaniment of a plain, sparsely unforgiving string arrangement, a lonely old lady dies her lonely death, her only funeralgoer the equally lonely priest who buries her.2008, Graeme Thomson, I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease, and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song, →ISBN, page 74

Forms of funeral-goer

pluralfuneral-goers

Origin of funeral-goer

From funeral + goer.

Questions about funeral-goer

What is funeral-goer the alternative form of?
Funeral-goer is the alternative form of funeralgoer.

Words near funeral-goer in the dictionary

  1. funeral pyres
  2. funeral rite
  3. funeral rites
  4. funeral service
  5. funeral store
  6. funeral-goer
  7. funeral-goers
  8. funeralgoer
  9. funeralgoers
  10. funeralist
  11. funeralists

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