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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave;
[syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture]

2. a chamber that is used as a grave;
[syn: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sepulture \Sep"ul*ture\, n. [F. s['e]pulture, L. sepultura, fr. sepelire, sepultum, to bury.] 1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment. [1913 Webster] Where we may royal sepulture prepare. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. [1913 Webster] Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's reason. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sepulture n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture] 2: a chamber that is used as a grave [syn: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture]