funeral home

noun

: an establishment with facilities for the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation, for the viewing of the body, and for funerals

called also funeral parlor

Examples of funeral home in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are a raft of fascinating characters such as Steve Holland, the son of a judge who was sent ricin letters, who served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives for 15 years and was also a funeral home owner accused by Curtis of selling body parts. —Peter White, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024

A couple who owned a funeral home at two locations in Colorado pleaded guilty on Friday to multiple counts of corpse abuse, more than a year after 191 bodies were found decaying at their businesses in a horrific scene, the authorities said. —Hank Sanders, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024

Full-service green funeral homes like Recompose turn human remains back into soils, while Life After Death in Brooklyn intends to turn industrial brownfields and urban sites into cemeteries with new parks for local communities. —Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024

The body is taken to the funeral home, where it’s embalmed, unless the family chooses a cremation. —Mike Winters,gene Kim, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1895, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

funeral home

noun

: a place where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation and funerals are held