Interment

//ɪnˈtɝmənt//

Synonyms for "interment" (34 found)

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Translations

23 translations across 18 languages.

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Armenian

1 entries
  • թաղում noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • погребение noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Catalan

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  • enterrament noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Dutch

2 entries
  • begrafenis noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)
  • teraardebestelling noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

German

1 entries
  • Beerdigung noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Greek

1 entries
  • ενταφιασμός noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Latin

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  • sepultūra noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Māori

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  • nehunga noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)
  • tanumanga noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)
  • tāpukenga noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Norman

1 entries
  • entèrrement noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • تدفین noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)
  • كوممه noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Polish

1 entries
  • pochówek noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Portuguese

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  • enterro noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Romanian

2 entries
  • înhumare noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)
  • înmormântare noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Russian

1 entries
  • погребе́ние noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Spanish

1 entries
  • entierro noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Tamil

1 entries
  • அடக்கம் noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Ukrainian

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  • поховання noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Walloon

1 entries
  • etermint noun (The act of burying a dead body; burial)

Sample sentences

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Neighbors went hastily to the old tumble-down hut, in which she had secured little more than a place of shelter from summer heats and winter cold: some with grave-clothes for a decent interment of the body; and some with food for the half-starving children, three in number.

Source: tatoeba (11249231)

In a chamber tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great Mycenæan body shield, although not of the usual figure-of-eight shape. A false neck vase, however, that belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in shape and design, similar to one found at Muliana in company with two late bronze broadswords, and bronze brooches like those found at Thunder Hill.

Source: wiktionary

She was to be given a state funeral, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.

Source: wiktionary

The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.

Source: wiktionary

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