English-Thai Dictionary

burial

N งานศพ  การฝังศพ  funeral ngan-sob

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BURIAL

n.ber'rial. [See Bury. ] The act of burying a deceased person; sepulture; interment; the act of depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water. 1. The act of placing any thing under earth or water; as, to bury see in the earth.
2. The church service for funerals.

 

BURIALPLACE

n.A place appropriated to the burial of the dead; a grave-yard.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BURIAL

Bur "i *al, n. Etym: [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels,fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher. ]

 

1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs. ] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52 ].

 

2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial. " Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preservation of a dead body. -- Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. -- Burial place, any place where burials are made. -- Burial service. (a ) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b ) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service.

 

Syn. -- Sepulture; interment; inhumation.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

burial

bur i al |ˈberēəl ˈbɛriəl | ▶noun the action or practice of interring a dead body: his remains were shipped home for burial. • a ceremony at which someone's body is interred; a funeral: [ as modifier ] : burial rites. • Archaeology a grave or the remains found in it: [ as modifier ] : burial mounds. ORIGIN Old English byrgels ‘place of burial, grave ’ (interpreted as plural in Middle English, hence the loss of the final -s ), of Germanic origin; related to bury .

 

burial ground

bur i al ground |ˈbɛriəl ˌɡraʊnd | ▶noun (often as burial grounds ) an area of ground set aside for the burying of human bodies. • a site at which the remains of once-living specimens can be found: coral reefs are the burial grounds of untold organisms.

 

Oxford Dictionary

burial

bur ¦ial |ˈbɛrɪəl | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the action or practice of burying a dead body: his remains were shipped home for burial. • [ count noun ] a ceremony at which someone's body is buried; a funeral. • [ count noun ] Archaeology a grave or the remains found in it. ORIGIN Old English byrgels ‘place of burial, grave ’ (interpreted as plural in Middle English, hence the loss of the final -s ), of Germanic origin; related to bury .

 

burial ground

bur ¦ial ground ▶noun an area of ground set aside for the burying of human bodies.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

burial

burial noun a private burial at Vineyard Point Cemetery: burying, interment, committal, entombment; funeral, obsequies; formal inhumation; archaic sepulture. ANTONYMS exhumation. USAGE See interment . Usage notes show additional guidance on finer points of English usage.

 

burial ground

burial ground noun a sacred burial ground: cemetery, graveyard, churchyard, necropolis; memorial park /garden; informal boneyard; archaic God's acre; historical potter's field.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

burial

burial noun the body was flown home for burial: burying, interment, committal, inhumation; entombment; funeral, obsequies, funerary rites; rare sepulture, exequies. ANTONYMS exhumation. WORD LINKS burial funerary, sepulchral relating to burial Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

burial ground

burial ground noun in the burial ground will be found the graves of many distinguished men. See cemetery.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

burial

bur i al /bériəl / (! -u-は /e /) →bury 名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 C U 埋葬 , 土葬 ; (埋葬による )葬儀 〘欧米では土葬が主流だが, 火葬 (cremation )も増えている 〙.2 C 〘考古 〙埋葬地 ; 墓 .～́ gr ò und [pl à ce ](古代の )埋葬地, 墓場 ; (多数の戦没者の )共同墓地 (cemetery ).～́ s è rvice 埋葬式 ; 葬儀 .