burial
burial
Definition
buri·al (ber′ē əl)
noun
the act of burying; esp., the burying of a dead body; interment
Etymology: ME biriel, false sing. of berieles < OE byrgels, tomb < byrgan, bury
adjective
of or connected with burial
burial
Synonyms
burial
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- crouch: One significant find was of a crouched child burial in a small grave cut.
- excavate: Plan of the main trench, showing the excavated burials and the location of a number of the unexcavated graves.
Preposition: in
- churchyard: Burials in churchyards are subject to rules and regulations of the church authority concerned.
- cemetery: In the spring of 1918 the Germans made eleven burials in the two cemeteries; three Italian graves of this period have been removed.
Adjective modifier
- urned: There were also 12 deposits of vessels that looked precisely like urned burials apart from the absence of human bone.
- prehistoric: This number does not include animal burials, nor does it include the possible prehistoric quadruple horse burial.
- Anglo-Saxon: Of particular interest were the Anglo-Saxon burials, including a number of cremations -- a rite almost unknown in east Kent.
- coffined: However, after the grave is full for coffined burial cremated remains caskets or urns may still be buried within the grave.
Modifies a noun
- mound: The stone was erected beside a long barrow, an ancient burial mound, which was built on the top of the hill.
- cairn: For opening times see Craven Museum website Lea Green cairn - Bronze Age burial cairn.
- chamber: The picture shows the small burial chamber under a grassy mound.
- rite: These comprise a rare body of evidence for differences in burial rite in military contexts.
- ground: Here is a Friends ' Meeting House with burial ground attached, erected in 1702.
- vault: Despite severe disturbance by later features, particularly burial vaults, isolated ' islands ' of intact church floor survived.
Noun used with modifier
- inhumation: The rest of the finds were from inhumation burials.
- cremation: The ring of large stones would have held together a cairn of smaller stones covering a cremation burial.
- cist: These type of chambered Bronze Age cist burials are known as segmented cists.
- chariot: A chariot burial was excavated near the railroad station, right.
- on-farm: New EC legislation banning on-farm burial could be less than three years away.
- Viking: Keyword searches for words or simple phrases that describe your interest, for example, canals or Viking burial.
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