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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

Example Sentences

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Princess Anne attended a dawn service where she laid a wreath against Wellington Arch during a memorial service that included a reading of the John McCrae poem In Flanders Fields.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 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

A public memorial service for the victims is scheduled for Friday morning at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

Yet she refused to go to Irene’s memorial service.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride