sepulchre
/ˈsɛp(ə)lkə
/(US sepulcher)
noun
A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock....
- The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
- So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Synonyms
tomb, vault, burial place, burial chamber, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, sarcophagus, pyramid;
grave;
Archaeology mastaba
rare undercroft
verb [with object] literary
Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre: tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum 'burial place', from sepelire 'bury'.
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