burial Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
    interment; sepulture; inhumation; entombment.
  2. noun concealing something under the ground
    burying.

WordNet

Bur"i*al noun
Etymology
OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.
Definitions
  1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. Obs.
    The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52].
  2. 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. "To give a public burial." Shak.
    Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson.
    Syn. -- Sepulture; interment; inhumation.

Webster 1913