graveside
Where mourners gather
Graveside refers to the area immediately beside a grave, especially during a burial ceremony.
A graveside service takes place at the burial site rather than in a church or funeral home.
Mourners gathered at the graveside as the casket was lowered.
The word functions as both noun and adjective.
Service honoring the dead
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- intermentPutting a body underground
- committalAct of entrusting custody
- serviceAid or maintenance
rites · prayers · eulogy · benediction · requiem · procession · pallbearers · casket
Thing preserving remembrance
- tributeOffering of respect
- epitaphText honoring the deceased
- obituaryNotice of someone's passing
- legacyWhat's passed down
homage · reminiscence · memory · photograph · keepsake · flowers · wreath · visitation
Serious and dignified
- quietLacking in sound
- stillnessComplete lack of motion
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- dignityInnate personal worth
contemplation · reflection · silence · hush · peace · gravity · somber · muted
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- tearsViolent pulls apart
- weepingShedding tears audibly
lamentation · anguish · heartache · loss · sadness · consolation · solace · grieving
funeral
Service honoring the dead
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- intermentPutting a body underground
- committalAct of entrusting custody
service · rites · prayers · eulogy · benediction · requiem · procession · pallbearers · casket · lowering
memorial
Thing preserving remembrance
legacy · homage · reminiscence · memory · photograph · keepsake · flowers · wreath · visitation · honoring
solemn
Serious and dignified
dignity · contemplation · reflection · silence · hush · peace · gravity · somber · muted · overcast
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- tearsViolent pulls apart
weeping · lamentation · anguish · heartache · loss · sadness · consolation · solace · grieving · mourner
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- cemeteryheadstone, headstones, graves, tombstone, tombs
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- church burialsburial rites, burial plot, churchyard, consecrated ground, funeral mass
- literary deathdeath scene, deathbed, dying, corpse, funeral
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, mourning
gravesidechapel
Small worship room
funeral home · church · crematorium · mortuary · wake
gravesidebirthplace
Location of one's birth
cradle · delivery room · nursery · christening · baptismal font
- graveside serviceFuneral conducted at burial location