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INHUMATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inhumation mean?
• INHUMATION (noun)
The noun INHUMATION has 1 sense:
1. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Familiarity information: INHUMATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
burial; entombment; inhumation; interment; sepulture
Hypernyms ("inhumation" is a kind of...):
funeral; obsequy (a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated)
Derivation:
inhume (place in a grave or tomb)
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