"interment" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪnˈtɝmənt/ [General-American], /ɪnˈtɜːmənt/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-interment.ogg [US] Forms: interments [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mənt Etymology: From Middle English enterement, interment, from Old French enterrement. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|enterement}} Middle English enterement, {{m|enm|interment}} interment, {{der|en|fro|enterrement}} Old French enterrement Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} interment (countable and uncountable, plural interments)
  1. The act of burying a dead body; burial. Wikipedia link: interment Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Burial Synonyms: burial, deposition obs., inhumation, deep six idiom Holonyms: funeral Related terms: internment, cemetery, corpse, death Translations (The act of burying a dead body; burial): թաղում (tʿaġum) (Armenian), погребение (pogrebenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), enterrament [masculine] (Catalan), begrafenis [feminine] (Dutch), teraardebestelling [feminine] (Dutch), Beerdigung [feminine] (German), ενταφιασμός (entafiasmós) [masculine] (Greek), sepultūra [feminine] (Latin), nehunga (Maori), tāpukenga (Maori), tanumanga (Maori), entèrrement [feminine] (Norman), pochówek [masculine] (Polish), enterro [masculine] (Portuguese), înhumare [feminine] (Romanian), înmormântare [feminine] (Romanian), погребе́ние (pogrebénije) [neuter] (Russian), entierro [masculine] (Spanish), поховання (poxovannja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), etermint [masculine] (Walloon)

Inflected forms

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