SEPULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sepulture mean? 

• SEPULTURE (noun)
  The noun SEPULTURE has 2 senses:

1. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

2. a chamber that is used as a grave

  Familiarity information: SEPULTURE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEPULTURE (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 ("sepulture" is a kind of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A chamber that is used as a grave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture

Hypernyms ("sepulture" is a kind of...):

chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)

grave; tomb (a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone))

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

crypt (a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church))

mausoleum (a large burial chamber, usually above ground)

monument; repository (a burial vault (usually for some famous person))

burial vault; vault (a burial chamber (usually underground))

Instance hyponyms:

Holy Sepulcher; Holy Sepulchre (the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection)