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1. (n.) burial
the act or ceremony of burying.
2. burial
the place of burying; grave.
Etymology: (1200–50; ME buriel, back formation from OE byrgels burial place =byrg(an) to bury+-els n. suffix; cf. riddle1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture
the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
2. (noun) burying, burial
concealing something under the ground
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1. (noun) burial
the act of putting a dead body in the ground
a Christian burial
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) burial
a grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture
2. (noun) burial
the act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. burial
The act or ceremony of putting a corpse into the ground or a vault, or into the sea; or the inurnment of CREMAINS.
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Sense: (an instance of) burying (a dead body) in a grave etc
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 Afrikaans: begrafnis |
 Arabic: دَفْن |
 Bulgarian: погребение |
 Brazilian: enterro |
 Czech: pohřeb(ní) |
 German: das Begräbnis |
 Danish: begravelse |
 Greek: ενταφιασμός |
 Spanish: entierro |
 Estonian: matus |
 Farsi: مراسم خاک سپاری |
 Finnish: hautaus |
 French: (d')enterrement |
 Hebrew: קֶבֶר |
 Hindi: दफन, शव कक्ष |
 Croatian: pokop |
 Hungarian: temetés |
 Indonesian: penguburan |
 Icelandic: jarðarför, greftrun |
 Italian: sepoltura |
 Japanese: 埋葬 |
 Korean: 매장 |
 Lithuanian: laidotuvės |
 Latvian: bēres; apbedīšana; bēru- |
 Malay: pengebumian |
 Dutch: begrafenis, begrafenis- |
 Norwegian: begravelse, gravlegging; |
 Polish: pogrzeb |
 Persian: مراسم خاک سپاری |
 Pashto: د خښولو مراسم |
 Portuguese: enterro |
 Romanian: (de)înmormântare |
 Russian: похороны; ритуальный |
 Slovak: pohreb; pohrebný |
 Slovenian: pogreb, pogreben |
 Serbian: sahrana |
 Swedish: begravning |
 Thai: งานศพ |
 Turkish: gömme, defin |
 Taiwanese: 埋葬 |
 Ukrainian: похорон; похоронний |
 Urdu: دفنانے کا عمل |
 Vietnamese: việc chôn cất |
 Chinese: 埋葬 |
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