burial : Idioms & Phrases

• a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body.

Webster 1913

• noun a chamber that is used as a grave
  sepulchre; sepulcher; sepulture.
  

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• noun cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial
  

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• noun a tract of land used for burials
  graveyard; burial ground; memorial park; cemetery; burying ground; necropolis.
  

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• a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies.

Webster 1913

• noun (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
  grave mound; tumulus; barrow.
  

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• any place where burials are made.

Webster 1913

• . (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service.

Webster 1913

• noun a tract of land used for burials
  graveyard; burial ground; memorial park; cemetery; burying ground; necropolis.
  

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• noun a burial chamber (usually underground)
  vault.
  

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• noun a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures
  

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