burial

bur·i·al (b

The act or process of burying.

[Middle English buriel, back-formation from buriels (taken as pl.), from Old English byrgels; see bhergh-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

buri·al adj.

burial [ˈbɛrɪəl]

the act of burying, esp the interment of a dead body

[Old English byrgels burial place, tomb; see bury, -al²]

Burial

See also corpses; death

cerement, cerements

the cloth or clothing in which the dead are wrapped for burial or other form of funeral.

columbarium

a vault where the remains of cremated bodies are kept, usually in one of a number of recesses in a wall.

exequy

1. a funeral procession or cortege.
2. funeral rites or ceremony.

hydriotaphia

a burial in an urn.

necropolis

a cemetery, especially one attached to an ancient city.

obsequies

a funeral or funeral ceremony. Sometimes obsequy.

sepelition

Obsolete, burial or interment.

sindology

the study of funeral shrouds.

taphephobia, taphiphobia, taphophobia

an abnormal fear of being buried alive.

taphophilia

a love for funerals.

Burial

Davy Jones’s locker A watery grave; the bottom of the ocean, especially as the grave of those who die at sea. In nautical slang, Davy Jones is the spirit of the sea, the sailor’s devil. Of the many conjectures as to the derivation of this expression, the most plausible include theories such as: Jones is a corruption of Jonah; Davy is derived from duppy a ghost or spirit among West Indian Negroes; and locker is a seaman’s chest. While the phrase Davy Jones’s locker has been in use only since 1803, the term Davy Jones dates from 1751.

God’s acre A churchyard, a cemetery. Although Longfellow called this phrase “an ancient Saxon phrase,” others claim that it is a more modern borrowing from the German Gottesacker.

The Greeks call their Church-yards dormitories, sleeping-places. The Germans call them Godsacre. (John Trapp, Annotations upon the Old and New Testament, 1646)

According to OED citations, the phrase has been in print since the early 17th century.

hic jacet A tombstone or gravemarker; specifically, the inscription on such a tablet, from the Latin hic jacet ‘here lies,’ a common introduction to a gravestone epitaph.

Among the knightly brasses of the graves,

And by the cold Hic Jacets of the dead.

(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, 1859)

marble orchard A graveyard or necropolis; also, bone orchard. This American slang expression is clearly derived from the multitudinous stone tablets in cemeteries.

A couple more punches and it would have been the marble orchard for him. (B. Broadfoot, Ten Lost Years, 1973)

put to bed with a shovel See DRUNKENNESS.

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	burial - the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture funeral - a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"
	2.	burial - concealing something under the ground burying concealing, hiding, concealment - the activity of keeping something secret reburial, reburying - the act of burying again

burial

noun funeral, interment, burying, obsequies, entombment, inhumation, exequies, sepulture He can have a decent burial.

Related words
fear taphephobia

Translations

burial [ˈberɪəl]

A. N → entierro m
I like the idea of burial at sea → me gusta la idea de que mi cadáver sea arrojado al mar

B. CPD burial ground N → cementerio m, camposanto m, panteón m (LAm)
burial mound N → túmulo m
burial place N → lugar m de sepultura
burial service N → funerales mpl
burial vault N → panteón m familiar, cripta f

burial [ˈbɛriəl] n

(= interment) → enterrement m

(= ceremony) → funérailles fpl
burial ground n → cimetière m
burial mound n → tumulus m

burial

n → Beerdigung f, → Bestattung f; (= burial ceremony also) → Begräbnis nt; (in cemetery also) → Beisetzung f (form); Christian burial → christliches Begräbnis; burial at sea → Seebestattung f

burial:

burial chamber

n → Grabkammer f

burial ground

n → Begräbnisstätte f

burial mound

n → Grabhügel m

burial object

n (Archeol) → Grabbeigabe f

burial place

n → Grabstätte f

burial service

n → Trauerfeier f

burial [ˈbərɪəl] n → sepoltura, seppellimento

burial bury

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