"Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
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Inhumation
//ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "inhumation" (6 found)
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Translations
16 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- погребение noun (The act of burial)
Catalan
1 entries- inhumació noun (The act of burial)
French
1 entries- inhumation noun (The act of burial)
Galician
3 entries- enterramento noun (The act of burial)
- inhumación noun (The act of burial)
- soterramento noun (The act of burial)
German
3 entries- Beerdigung noun (The act of burial)
- Erdbestattung noun (The act of burial)
- Inhumation noun (The act of burial)
Italian
1 entries- inumazione noun (The act of burial)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- تدفین noun (The act of burial)
- كوممه noun (The act of burial)
Polish
2 entries- inhumacja noun (The act of burial)
- pochówek noun (The act of burial)
Spanish
2 entries- entierro noun (The act of burial)
- inhumación noun (The act of burial)
Sample sentences
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Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.
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