BURIAL VAULT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does burial vault mean? • BURIAL VAULT (noun)
The noun BURIAL VAULT has 1 sense:
1. a burial chamber (usually underground)
Familiarity information: BURIAL VAULT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BURIAL VAULT (noun)
Meaning:
A burial chamber (usually underground)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
burial vault; vault
Hypernyms ("burial vault" is a kind of...):
burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burial vault"):
charnel; charnel house (a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited)
columbarium (a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns)
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