sepulture

sep·ul·ture

S0275900 (sĕp′əl-cho͝or′, -chər)n.1. The act of interment; burial.2. A sepulcher.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sepultūra, from sepultus, past participle of sepelīre, to bury the dead.]

sepulture

(ˈsɛpəltʃə) n1. the act of placing in a sepulchre2. an archaic word for sepulchre[C13: via Old French from Latin sepultūra, from sepultus buried, from sepelīre to bury]

sep•ul•ture

(ˈsɛp əl tʃər)

n. 1. burial. 2. sepulcher; tomb. [1250–1300; < Old French < Latin sepultūra]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sepulture - the ritual placing of a corpse in a graveburial, entombment, inhumation, intermentfuneral - a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"
	2.	sepulture - a chamber that is used as a grave burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchrechamber - a natural or artificial enclosed spacecrypt - a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)tomb, grave - a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"mausoleum - a large burial chamber, usually above groundmonument, repository - a burial vault (usually for some famous person)burial vault, vault - a burial chamber (usually underground)

sepulture

nounA burial place or receptacle for human remains:catacomb, cinerarium, crypt, grave, mausoleum, ossuary, sepulcher, tomb, vault.