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BURIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concealing something under the ground
Synonyms:
burial; burying
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("burial" is a kind of...):
concealing; concealment; hiding (the activity of keeping something secret)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burial"):
reburial; reburying (the act of burying again)
Derivation:
bury (place in the earth and cover with soil)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Synonyms:
burial; entombment; inhumation; interment; sepulture
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("burial" is a kind of...):
funeral; obsequy (a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated)
Derivation:
bury (place in a grave or tomb)
Context examples:
He and his colleagues argue that direct evidence in the form of teeth, bones and artifacts associated with the burial, as well as inferences from the evidence as to what time of year the children died and were buried, could lead to new thinking about how early societies were structured, how they viewed death and the importance of rituals associated with death and what stresses they faced in trying to survive.
(Archaeologists discover remains of Ice-Age infants in Alaska, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Three of the tombs, which date back to the New Kingdom period and are between 3500 and 3000 years old, appear to have been used for feline burial as dozens of mummified moggies were discovered within, as well as wooden cat statutes and representations of the cat goddess Bast.
(Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover One-Of-A-Kind Tomb South of Cairo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The tombs are collective burial sites, where individuals of both sexes and of all ages were buried.
(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)
The other tomb has a 6-meter burial shaft "leading to four side chambers," which contained artifacts including fragments of wooden coffins.
(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)
But even if the burial service was comic, what about poor Art and his trouble?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I told him that, unhappily for the burial service, I was not a preacher, when he sharply demanded: What do you do for a living?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
At the El Barranquete necropolis, the earliest burials would have taken place between 3030 and 2915 BC, again some 4,000 years ago, and the most recent between 1075 and 815 BC, about 2,000 years ago.
(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)
All the time of the burial he was, I could see, putting some terrible restraint on himself.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Then we’ll drop him over without any palavering, unless our clerical-looking castaway has the burial service at sea by heart.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In the case of Panoría, the first burials would have taken place between 3525 and 3195 BC (about 5500 years ago), with the last ones taking place between 2125 and 1980 BC (about 4,000 years ago), the burials there spanning over a period of approximately 1500 years.
(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)
