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Definition: Hearse |
HearseNoun1. A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hearse" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | HEARSE, n. Death's baby-carriage. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | Seen on the dead. A handsome vehicle in which the man who has always been a tail-ender is finally permitted to lead the procession. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a hearse, denotes uncongenial relations in the home, and failure to carry on business in a satisfactory manner. It also betokens the death of one near to you, or sickness and sorrow. If a hearse crosses your path, you will have a bitter enemy to overcome. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Hearse (1 syl.) means simply a harrow. Those harrows used in Roman Catholic churches (or frames with spikes) for holding candles are called in France herses. These frames at a later period were covered with a canopy, and lastly were mounted on wheels. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A hearse is a funeral vehicle, a conveyance for the coffin from e.g. a church to a cemetery, a similar burial site, or a crematorium.
The name is supposed coming from the Anglo-Saxon word harrow, describing the temporary framework on which candles were placed above the bier. This also held banners and armorial bearings and other heraldic devices. Complimentary verses or epitaphs were often attached to the hearse.
Hearse enthusiasts are a subset of auto buffs. The 'Dead Sled' also appeals to Goths, as a suitable alternative to a black stretch limo.
External links
- Google serach for Hearse
- Some hearse models
- A detailed technical description
- A site for enthusiasts
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hearse."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interment | Coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hearse |
| English words defined with "hearse": Herse ♦ Inhearse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hearse": Coffin ♦ DIRECTOR, FUNERAL ♦ FUNERAL ATTENDANT ♦ manager, funeral home ♦ undertaker assistant, UPHOLSTERER, LIMOUSINE AND HEARSE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I really don't want to cause a riot with this hearse. (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos) This is a non-riot hearse. And if it were a hearse there would be silence in the backseat (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos) And everybody ought to be in the procession or the hearse. (Noah's Ark; writing credit: De Leon Anthony; Anthony Coldeway) I was driving a cab, Edith, not a hearse. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) Well in that case, get that hearse rolling (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: William Roberts; Walter Newman) | |
Lyrics | When I saw that hearse come rolling (Will The Circle Be Unbroken; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) All you rappers yellin bout who you put in a hearse (Freakin It; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
Clever | Don't wait for the hearse to take you to church. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hearse Thief (1965) The Hearse (1980) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A policeman and two other men, possibly undertakers, with the covered casket of Legs Diamond on a stretcher next to a hearse. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Funeral of Col. Vosburgh. The Hearse approaching the R.R. Depot. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | The hearse abruptly departed, forcing mourners to find alternate ways of transportation to the cemetery. (references) |
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| "Hearse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "Hearse" is used about 105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.24% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.76% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 105 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "hearse": hearse cloth. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hearse": co-hearse. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "hearse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | makinë varrimi. (various references) | |
Arabic | كفن و نقل, نعش (bier, brace, brisk, buck up, casket, coffin, elevate, exhilarate, freshen, freshen up, ginger, invigorate, pall, pick up, put smb. on his leg, rally, reanimate, reflate, refresh, revitalize, revive), عربة الموتى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | катафалка (catafalque), погребална кола (feretory). (various references) | |
Chinese | 轀 , 輀 , 輴 , 殯車 . (various references) | |
Czech | pohřební vùz, máry (bier, feretory). (various references) | |
Danish | rustvogn. (various references) | |
Dutch | lijkwagen. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرده کش , نعش کش , بانعش کش بردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | ruumisvaunut, ruumisauto. (various references) | |
French | corbillard. (various references) | |
German | leichenwagen (hearses). (various references) | |
Greek | νεκροφόρα (bier, coffin bearer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קרון "מת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | halottaskocsi (catafalque), halottas kocsi, ravatal (bier, catafalque, feretory). (various references) | |
Italian | carro funebre, autovettura funebre. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 霊柩車 , 柩車 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうしゃ (barn, pigeon house, stable), れいきゅうしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 영구차. (various references) | |
Manx | carr oanluckee, carbyd (bier, bus, cabin, coach, stretcher, vehicle). (various references) | |
Norwegian | likvogn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earsehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | carro fúnebre (bier, catafalque), carreta ou carro fnebre, atade. (various references) | |
Romanian | dric, car funebru. (various references) | |
Russian | катафалк (bier, catafalque). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | okvir sa svećnjacima, mrtvačka kola. (various references) | |
Spanish | coche fúnebre. (various references) | |
Swedish | likvagn. (various references) | |
Turkish | cenaze arabası. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | труна (bier, casket, coffin), катафалк (catafalque), надгробок (headstone), могила (bier, burial-hill, cell, entombment, grave, sepulture, tomb). (various references) | |
Welsh | elorgerbyd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | herce. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hearse": hearsed, hearses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hearse": rehearse. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hearse": rehearsed, rehearser, rehearsers, rehearses, unrehearsed. (additional references) | |
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"Hearse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bearse, earse, fearse, haeres, haese, Haesje, harase, Harasov, harse, Healsey, hearde, heare, heares, hearest, Hearsey, hearst, Hearsum, hearsy, hearte, hearus, hearye, helare, Henares, herale, Herse, hersen, herze, herzi, tearse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hearse" (pronounced her"s) |
| 3 | h er" s | rehearse. |
| 2 | -er" s | adverse, averse, burse, coerce, curse, disburse, disperse, diverse, immerse, intersperse, inverse, nurse, obverse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, reverse, submerse, terse, transverse, verse, worse. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: haeres. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-r-s" | |
-1 letter: erase, hares, hears, heres, rheas, saree, share, shear, sheer. | |
-2 letters: ares, arse, ears, ease, eras, haes, hare, hear, here, hers, rase, rash, rees, resh, rhea, sear, seer, sera, sere, shea. | |
-3 letters: are, ars, ash, ear, era, ere, ers, hae, has, her, hes, rah, ras, ree, res, sae, sea, see, ser, sha, she. | |
-4 letters: ae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-r-s" | |
+1 letter: adheres, aethers, hareems, headers, healers, hearers, hearsed, hearses, heaters, heavers, reaches, rehears, reheats, reshape, reshave, sheared, shearer, whereas. | |
+2 letters: adherers, ashlered, behavers, breaches, breathes, cashmere, cheaters, earaches, earthset, enchaser, ephedras, feathers, gheraoes, haeredes, halteres, hastener, haverels, headrest, hearkens, heartens, hearties, heathers, hectares, hektares, herbages, hetaeras, kashered, leachers, leathers, machrees, marchese, peachers, pharisee, preaches, preheats, preshape, reachers, recheats, redheads, rehashed, rehashes, rehearse, rephrase, research, reshaped, reshaper, reshapes, reshaved, reshaven, reshaves, rewashed, rewashes, rheobase, searched, searcher, searches, seashore, shagreen, shearers, sheather, shikaree, shivaree, sorehead, teachers, theaters, theatres, weathers, wreathes. | |
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