INTERMENT
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)
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 (a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated)
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