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memorial service

NOUN
commemoration
Synonyms
STRONGEST
celebration ceremony remembrance tribute
STRONG
custom recognition
WEAK
monumentalization
Antonyms
WEAK
forgetting neglect negligence unobservance
NOUN
last rites
Synonyms
WEAK
burial service exequies extreme unction funeral ceremony funeral rites funeral service last duty last honors last offices obsequies sacrament of the sick viaticum visitation of the sick
NOUN
requiem
Synonyms
STRONG
canticle ceremony chant dirge elegy eulogy liturgy monody psalm ritual sermon threnody worship
WEAK
death song funeral hymn religious song

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On Thursday there was a memorial service for Virgo in his home city at Sheffield Cathedral, a short walk from the Crucible.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

The memorial service will honour more than 540 residents and all 35 engineers and electricians who perished when the ship sank on 15 April 1912.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

At a memorial service for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, his son Jesse Jr. praised his “consistent prophetic voice.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

After a memorial service in France and a Cuban state funeral, his ashes were interred in Havana.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

I think °fus were at the memorial service.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine