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state funerals

state funerals is the plural of state funeral.

Meaning of state funeral

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

Questions about state funerals

What is state funerals the plural of?
State funerals is the plural of state funeral.

Words near state funerals in the dictionary

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

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