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- [sep-uh l-ker]
- /ˈsɛp əl kər/
- /sˈepʌltʃə/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [sep-uh l-ker]
- /ˈsɛp əl kər/
Definitions of sepulcher word
- noun sepulcher a tomb, grave, or burial place. 1
- noun sepulcher Also called Easter sepulcher. Ecclesiastical. a cavity in a mensa for containing relics of martyrs. a structure or a recess in some old churches in which the Eucharist was deposited with due ceremonies on Good Friday and taken out at Easter in commemoration of Christ's entombment and Resurrection. 1
- verb with object sepulcher to place in a sepulcher; bury. 1
- noun sepulcher tomb 1
- countable noun sepulcher A sepulcher is a building or room in which a dead person is buried. 0
- noun sepulcher a vault for burial; grave; tomb 0
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Origin of sepulcher
First appearance:
before 1150 One of the 7% oldest English words
1150-1200; Middle English sepulcre < Old French < Latin sepulcrum, equivalent to sepul- (variant stem of sepelīre to bury) + -crum noun suffix of place
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Parts of speech for Sepulcher
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sepulcher popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 50% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sepulcher
noun sepulcher
- boneyard — a cemetery; graveyard
- boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
- cemetery — A cemetery is a place where dead people's bodies or their ashes are buried.
- charnel — ghastly; sepulchral; deathly
- churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
verb sepulcher
- bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- inearth — (transitive, chiefly poetic) To put into the earth; inter.
- inhume — to bury; inter.
- inter — to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
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