burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture
(noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sepulture (countable and uncountable, plural sepultures)
(uncountable) The act of sepulchring, committing the remains of a deceased person to the grave or sepulchre.
(archaic) Alternative form of sepulchre.
• (act of sepulchring): interment
sepulture (third-person singular simple present sepultures, present participle sepulturing, simple past and past participle sepultured)
(transitive) To inter in a sepulture.
Source: Wiktionary
Sep"ul*ture, n. Etym: [F. sépulture, L. sepultura, fr. sepelire, sepultum, to bury.]
1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment. Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden.
2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. Drunkeness that the horrible sepulture of man's reason. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 May 2025
(noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
