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state funeral

state funeral noun: a public funeral ceremony held to honour individuals of national significance.

Noun

state funeral (plural state funerals)

  1. A public funeral ceremony held to honour individuals of national significance.
    • In May 1898, for example, the funeral train of our Mr Gladstone would be brought from his country estate at Hawarden to Westminster station on the District Line via Willesden Junction. One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by...2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33

state funeral meaning in Kannada and Vietnamese

state funeral in Kannada

ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಗೌರವಪೂರ್ಣ ಅಂತ್ಯಕ್ರಿಯೆ

state funeral in Vietnamese

public funeral ceremony
quốc táng, quốc tang

Forms of state funeral

pluralstate funerals

Questions about state funeral

What does state funeral mean?
State funeral means a public funeral ceremony held to honour individuals of national significance.
What is state funeral in Kannada?
State funeral in Kannada is ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಗೌರವಪೂರ್ಣ ಅಂತ್ಯಕ್ರಿಯೆ. See State funeral meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is state funeral?
State funeral is a noun.
What is the plural of state funeral?
The plural of state funeral is state funerals.

Words near state funeral in the dictionary

  1. state examinations
  2. state fair
  3. state fairs
  4. state flower
  5. state flowers
  6. state funeral
  7. state funerals
  8. state house
  9. state houses
  10. state it
  11. state law

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