funeral home

1. 1.

   a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects

   Synonymsfuneral parlorfuneral parlourfuneral chapelfuneral churchfuneral-residence

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Questions about funeral home

What does funeral home mean?

funeral home means "a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects".

What is another word for funeral home?

Close synonyms include funeral parlor, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral church, funeral-residence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is funeral home a common word?

funeral home is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.