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# pallbearer

«pallbearer» in Mova's school dictionary: **One of the people who carry the coffin at a funeral** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pallbearer, pallbearers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) One of the people who carry the coffin at a funeral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallbearer/#m1)

2) A person who walks beside the coffin at a funeral as an honour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallbearer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In life and church lessons about funerals, pallbearers are usually family members or close friends of the person who died; carrying the coffin is a sign of love and respect. Often there are six pallbearers. The "pall" is the cloth that covers a coffin.

### examples

- Six pallbearers carried the coffin into the church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallbearer/#x1)
- Grandad's grandsons were his pallbearers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallbearer/#x2)
- Being a pallbearer is an honour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallbearer/#x3)
- The pallbearers walked slowly and carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallbearer/#x4)
- At the soldier's funeral, the pallbearers wore uniforms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallbearer/#x5)
- She asked her brothers to be pallbearers for their mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallbearer/#x6)

### note

Countable. One word. "Pall" here means the cloth over a coffin; it is not the same word as "pal" (friend). A sad, respectful word; speak gently about funerals.

### In the corpora

- [Pallbearers carry the coffin; they may be family, friends or people who work for the funeral director.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pallbearer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallbearer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.