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PALLBEARER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pallbearer mean?
• PALLBEARER (noun)
The noun PALLBEARER has 1 sense:
1. one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral
Familiarity information: PALLBEARER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bearer; pallbearer
Hypernyms ("pallbearer" is a kind of...):
griever; lamenter; mourner; sorrower (a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died))
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