funeral march

1. 1.

   a slow march to be played for funeral processions

   Synonymsdead march

   Broaderprocessional march

Questions about funeral march

What does funeral march mean?

funeral march means "a slow march to be played for funeral processions".

What is another word for funeral march?

Close synonyms include dead march. 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 march a common word?

funeral march 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.