INTERMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interment mean? 

• INTERMENT (noun)
  The noun INTERMENT has 1 sense:

1. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

  Familiarity information: INTERMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERMENT (noun)

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 ("interment" is a kind of...):

funeral; obsequy (a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated)

Derivation:

inter (place in a grave or tomb)

 Context examples 

Mr. Kirwin, on hearing this evidence, desired that I should be taken into the room where the body lay for interment, that it might be observed what effect the sight of it would produce upon me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I wished to leave immediately after the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who had come down to direct his sister's interment and settle the family affairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the interment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)