BURIAL VAULT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burial vault mean? 

• BURIAL VAULT (noun)
  The noun BURIAL VAULT has 1 sense:

1. a burial chamber (usually underground)

  Familiarity information: BURIAL VAULT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURIAL VAULT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A burial chamber (usually underground)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

burial vault; vault

Hypernyms ("burial vault" is a kind of...):

burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burial vault"):

charnel; charnel house (a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited)

columbarium (a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns)