burial
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
burial/ˈberiəl/
▶noun
- 1 the burying of a dead body.
■ a funeral.
- 2 Archaeology a grave or the remains found in it.
'burial' also found in these Oxford entries:
barrow
- bier
- cairn
- cemetery
- cist
- committal
- crypt
- deep-six
- funeral
- funeral parlour
- graveyard
- Hallstatt
- howff
- inhumation
- interment
- kurgan
- last offices
- lay
- layer-out
- marabout
- mastaba
- military honours
- monument
- mortuary
- mound
- mummy
- passage grave
- potter's field
- septal
- sepulchre
- sepulture
- ship burial
- shroud
- sky burial
- Stations of the Cross
- tomb
- tumulus
- undertaker
