state funeral

English

state funeral (plural state funerals)

A public funeral ceremony held to honour individuals of national significance.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33:
  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.'

public funeral ceremony

Chinese:
Mandarin: 國葬／国葬 (zh) (guózàng)
Danish: statsbegravelse c
Esperanto: ŝtata funebro
Finnish: valtiolliset hautajaiset
French: funérailles nationales f pl, obsèques nationales f pl, funérailles d’État f pl
German: Staatsbegräbnis (de) n
Japanese: 国葬 (ja) (こくそう, kokusō)
Portuguese: funeral do estado m
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: funeral de estado m
Vietnamese: quốc táng (vi) (國葬)

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