| 单词 | sepulchre |
| 释义 | sepulchre (once / 939 pages) n There are many possible resting places for your body once you die, and a sepulcher is the best option if you want a fancy room made entirely from stone. Think it over, because you can only choose once. Crypts, mausoleums, sarcophagi, sepulchers: each one is a place to bury someone, with slight variations. A sepulcher (or if you’re British you’ll spell it sepulchre) is basically a stone room with a stone coffin where your body lies. The word comes from the Latin sepulcrum, which means “burial place,” for obvious reasons. Pronouncing sepulcher could trick you, because the ch actually sounds like a k: "SEP-ul-ker." WORD FAMILYsepulchre: sepulchral, sepulchres+/sepulchral: sepulchrally USAGE EXAMPLESRestorers working in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Israel uncover stone slab venerated as the resting place of Jesus Christ. National Geographic(Oct 26, 2016) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre covers the assumed site of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection. The Guardian(Jun 21, 2016) Archaeology at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been limited, not only by protective clerics but also by centuries of tradition. Washington Post(Jun 20, 2016) n a chamber that is used as a grave Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulture Holy Sepulcher the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection Mausoleum at Halicarnasusa white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king; destroyed in 1402 Taj Mahalbeautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife crypt a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) mausoleuma large burial chamber, usually above ground monument, repositorya burial vault (usually for some famous person) burial vault, vaulta burial chamber (usually underground) charnel, charnel housea vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited columbariuma sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns chamber a natural or artificial enclosed space grave, tomba place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) |
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