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funeralgoer

funeralgoer noun: one who attends a funeral.

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 funeralgoer

pluralfuneralgoers
alternative formfuneral-goer

Origin of funeralgoer

From funeral + goer.

Questions about funeralgoer

What does funeralgoer mean?
Funeralgoer means one who attends a funeral.
What part of speech is funeralgoer?
Funeralgoer is a noun.
What is the plural of funeralgoer?
The plural of funeralgoer is funeralgoers.

Words near funeralgoer in the dictionary

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

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