Sepulcher

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  • noun. A burial vault.
  • noun. A receptacle for sacred relics, especially in an altar.
  • transitive verb. To place into a sepulcher; inter.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A tomb; a cave, building, etc., for interment; a burial-vault.
  • noun. In eccles. arch., a recess in some early churches, in which were placed on Good Friday, with appropriate ceremonies, the cross, the reserved sacrament, and the sacramental plate, and from which they were taken at high mass on Easter, to typify the burial and resurrection of Christ.
  • To bury; inter; entomb.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To bury; to inter; to entomb.
  • noun. The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
  • noun. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii. 27.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A burial chamber.
  • verb. To bury the dead.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a chamber that is used as a grave
    • Word Usage
    "Called the Chamber of Paladine, the sepulcher was a large rectangular room, built far below the ground where the destruction of the Tower did not affect it."
    Equivalent
    sepulchre  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    chamber  grave  tomb  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Holy Sepulchre  burial vault  crypt  holy sepulcher  mausoleum  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Bible  dissecting-room  foundation  freakout  leecher  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    barrow  beehive tomb  bone house  box grave  burial  
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