[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.
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Where we may royal sepulture prepare. --Dryden.
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2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.
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Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's
reason. --Chaucer.
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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]