Meaning of MEMORIAL SERVICE

[Jesus1]

Hello!

What is a 'memorial service'?

Thanks a lot!

Jes?s

[DOlier]

"Memorial service": a religious ceremony in memory of a dead person or people.

Art
Native Hiberno English speaker

[Jesus1]

Thanks a lot!

So, is it that ceremony that
is celebrated one month, year...
after the funeral?

Jes?s.

[DOlier]

That depends on the religion and custom.
It is a very broad term.
It would include the funeral service, or an anniversary, a month, a year later,
. . . or a commemoration for soldiers killed in a battle decades ago.

Art
Native Hiberno English speaker.

[Yankee]

.
There a lot of memorial services being held in memory of the 9/11 victims at the moment...
.
Amy

[Jesus1]

Thank you very much!

Now I catch the term on!

[DOlier]

[DOlier]

[Jesus1]

Thanks a lot, Dolier!

Yes, That?s what I meant!

Now I got it!

But, can that phrasal verb be used with "concepts"?

Why with concepts and not with words?

I red this example this week.

"He didn?t catch on to new concepts easily"

Or is "catch on to" a phrasal verb?
I was looking it up in different dictionaries
and I didn?t find it. So I supposed the
phrasal verb was "catch on".

Thanks indeed!

Jes?s