Usually means: Disposal of body by burning.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. cremation: Merriam-Webster
  2. cremation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cremation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cremation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cremation, cremation: Wordnik
  6. cremation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cremation: Wiktionary
  8. Cremation, cremation: Dictionary.com
  9. cremation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. cremation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Cremation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cremation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cremation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. cremation: Rhymezone
  15. Cremation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cremation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. cremation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cremation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cremation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cremation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cremation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. cremation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cremation: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cremation: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cremate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cremation)

noun:  A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.

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