Sepulcher

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A burial vault.
  • n. A receptacle for sacred relics, especially in an altar.
  • v. To place into a sepulcher; inter.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A burial chamber.
  • v. To bury the dead.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
  • v. To bury; to inter; to entomb.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tomb; a cave, building, etc., for interment; a burial-vault.
  • n. In eccles. arch., a recess in some early churches, in which were placed on Good Friday, with appropriate ceremonies, the cross, the reserved sacrament, and the sacramental plate, and from which they were taken at high mass on Easter, to typify the burial and resurrection of Christ.
  • To bury; inter; entomb.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a chamber that is used as a grave
    • Equivalent
    sepulchre   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tomb    grave    chamber   
    Hyponym
    repository    Holy Sepulchre    mausoleum    monument    vault   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    grave    tomb    monument    bury    inter   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sepulchre    nectary    treasure-house    dissecting-room    organica   
     
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