sepulture

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sep=ul=ture

CIDE DICTIONARY

sepulture, n. [F. sépulture, L. sepultura, fr. sepelire, sepultum, to bury.].

•  The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.  [1913 Webster]

  "Where we may royal sepulture prepare."  [1913 Webster]
•  A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.  [1913 Webster]

  "Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's reason."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sepulture, n. literary the act or an instance of burying or putting in the grave.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L sepultura (as SEPULCHRE)

ROGET THESAURUS

sepulture

Interment

N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.