burial
noun /ˈberiəl/
/ˈberiəl/
[uncountable, countable]- the act or ceremony of burying a dead body
- a burial place/mound/site
- Her body was sent home for burial.
- His family insisted he should be given a proper burial.
- baptism, marriage and burial services
Extra ExamplesTopics Religion and festivalsc1, Life stagesc1- His body was returned home for burial.
- There were objections to the body's burial in consecrated ground.
- We want to give him a decent Christian burial.
- disturbing an ancient burial site
- preventing the body's burial in consecrated ground
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- decent
- proper
- Christian
- …
- give somebody
- attend
- go to
- …
- take place
- chamber
- ground
- mound
- …
- for burial
- burial in
Word OriginOld 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.