"sepulchre" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɛpəlkə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsɛpəlkɚ/ [General-American], /ˈsiːpəlkəɹ/ [obsolete] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sepulchre.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sepulchres [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English sepulcre and Old French sepulcre, from Latin sepulcrum (“grave, burial place”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|sepulcre}} Middle English sepulcre, {{der|en|fro|sepulcre}} Old French sepulcre, {{der|en|la|sepulcrum|t=grave, burial place}} Latin sepulcrum (“grave, burial place”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sepulchre (plural sepulchres)
  1. A burial chamber. Categories (topical): Burial, Rooms Synonyms: tomb Translations (burial chamber): قَبْر (qabr) [masculine] (Arabic), гробница (grobnica) [feminine] (Bulgarian), sepulcre [masculine] (Catalan), hrobka (Czech), graf [neuter] (Dutch), q:r-s-Q6 (qrs) [masculine] (Egyptian), hautakammio (Finnish), sépulcre [masculine] (French), Grabkammer [feminine] (German), Gruft [feminine] (German), τάφος (táfos) [masculine] (Greek), μνήμα (mníma) [neuter] (Greek), sepolcro [masculine] (Italian), гро́бница (gróbnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), makam (Malay), kaɓuri [class-5, class-6] (Maore Comorian), бунхан (bunxan) (Mongolian), sepulcre [masculine] (Occitan), moldern (Old English), grobowiec [masculine] (Polish), sepulcro [masculine] (Portuguese), sepulcru [neuter] (Romanian), mormânt [neuter] (Romanian), склеп (sklep) [masculine] (Russian), гробни́ца (grobníca) [feminine] (Russian), grobnica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kripta [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mauzolej [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), sepulcro [masculine] (Spanish), kaburi [class-5, class-6] (Swahili), grift [common-gender] (Swedish), kabir (Turkish), türbe (Turkish), гробниця (hrobnycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), beddrod [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-sepulchre-en-noun-murni-wr Disambiguation of Burial: 75 22 3 Disambiguation of Rooms: 55 34 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 37 7 Disambiguation of 'burial chamber': 82 18
  2. (Christianity, historical) A recess in some early churches in which the reserved sacrament, etc. was kept from Good Friday till Easter. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Christianity
    Sense id: en-sepulchre-en-noun-seTyTkwL Topics: Christianity
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sepulcher [US] Derived forms: right of sepulchre, whited sepulchre Related terms: sepulchral, sepulture

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈsɛpəlkə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsɛpəlkɚ/ [General-American], /ˈsiːpəlkəɹ/ [obsolete] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sepulchre.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sepulchres [present, singular, third-person], sepulchring [participle, present], sepulchred [participle, past], sepulchred [past]
Etymology: From Middle English sepulcre and Old French sepulcre, from Latin sepulcrum (“grave, burial place”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|sepulcre}} Middle English sepulcre, {{der|en|fro|sepulcre}} Old French sepulcre, {{der|en|la|sepulcrum|t=grave, burial place}} Latin sepulcrum (“grave, burial place”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} sepulchre (third-person singular simple present sepulchres, present participle sepulchring, simple past and past participle sepulchred)
  1. (transitive) To place in a sepulchre. Tags: transitive Related terms: right of sepulchre
    Sense id: en-sepulchre-en-verb-m9R~q0PE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sepulcher [US] Related terms: sepulchral, sepulture

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.",
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          "ref": "1849, Edgar Allan Poe, \"Annabel Lee\"",
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          "ref": "1891, Thomas Taylor, The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, Section 1",
          "text": "Plato, too, it is well known, considered the body as the sepulchre of the soul, and in the Cratylus concurs with the doctrine of Orpheus, that the soul is punished through its union with body.",
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          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Part II, Chapter 14",
          "text": "The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend. First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.",
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          "ref": "1611, King James Version, Matthew 23:27",
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          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Part II, Chapter 14",
          "text": "The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend. First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.",
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      "code": "egy",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Gruft"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ms",
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      "word": "makam"
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      "code": "mn",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
      "word": "бунхан"
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      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "burial chamber",
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      "word": "sepulcre"
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      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "burial chamber",
      "word": "moldern"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "burial chamber",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "grobowiec"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "burial chamber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sepulcro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "burial chamber",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "burial chamber",
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      "word": "mormânt"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
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      "word": "склеп"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "word": "mauzolej"
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      "code": "sw",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "burial chamber",
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      "word": "grift"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "burial chamber",
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    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "burial chamber",
      "word": "türbe"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "code": "cy",
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      "word": "beddrod"
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