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state funeral en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A public funeral ceremony held to honour individuals of national significance.
   • In May 1898, for example, the funeral train of our Mr Gladstone would be brought from his country estate at Hawarden to Westminster station on the District Line via Willesden Junction. One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by Underground.' 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33:

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ko 국장 (public funeral ceremony) · ja 国葬 (public funeral ceremony) · vi quốc táng (public funeral ceremony) · ko 국가장 (public funeral ceremony) · fr obsèques nationales (public funeral ceremony) · da statsbegravelse (public funeral ceremony) · pt funeral do estado (public funeral ceremony) · cs státní pohřeb (public funeral ceremony) · fi valtiolliset hautajaiset (public funeral ceremony) · es funeral de estado (public funeral ceremony) · cmn 國葬 /国葬 (public funeral ceremony) · vi quốc tang (public funeral ceremony) · fr funérailles d'État (public funeral ceremony) · eo ŝtata funebro (public funeral ceremony) · pl pogrzeb państwowy (public funeral ceremony) · fr funérailles nationales (public funeral ceremony) · de Staatsbegräbnis (public funeral ceremony)