funeral

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A ceremony or group of ceremonies held in connection with the burial or cremation of a dead person.
• noun Archaic The eulogy delivered or the sermon preached at such a ceremony.
• noun The burial procession accompanying a body to the grave.
• noun An end or a cessation of existence.
• noun Slang A source of concern or care.
• adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a funeral.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Pertaining to burial or sepulture; used, spoken, etc., at the interment of the dead; as, a funeral torch; funeral rites; a funeral train or procession; a funeral oration.
• noun The ceremony of burying a dead person; the solemnization of interment; obsequies: formerly used also in the plural.
• noun A procession of persons attending the burial of the dead; a funeral train.
• noun A funeral sermon: usually in the plural, Davies.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead.
• adjective a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre.
• noun The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural.
• noun The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.
• noun obsolete A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Being related to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person.
• noun A ceremony to honour of a deceased person.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated