Bestattung — meaning in English

English meaning

• committal noun The act of entrusting something to someone.
• funeral noun A ceremony held to honor someone who has died, typically with the body present.

Senses

Bestattung is used for these senses in English:

• committal The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
• funeral A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

committal — full definition

1. noun The act of entrusting something to someone.
2. noun The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
3. noun The act of perpetrating an offence.
4. noun The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

funeral — full definition

1. noun A ceremony held to honor someone who has died, typically with the body present.
2. noun A sermon delivered as part of such a ceremony.

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