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SKY BURIAL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does sky burial mean?

• SKY BURIAL (noun)
The noun SKY BURIAL has 1 sense:

1. a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures

Familiarity information: SKY BURIAL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SKY BURIAL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("sky burial" is a kind of...):

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

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