LAST RITES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does last rites mean? 

• LAST RITES (noun)
  The noun LAST RITES has 2 senses:

1. a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation

2. rites performed in connection with a death or burial

  Familiarity information: LAST RITES used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAST RITES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

anointing of the sick; extreme unction; last rites

Hypernyms ("last rites" is a kind of...):

sacrament (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rites performed in connection with a death or burial

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("last rites" is a kind of...):

religious rite; rite (an established ceremony prescribed by a religion)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)