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A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
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A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
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A research facility where the decomposition of bodies can be studied.
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A building for holding the remains of the dead.
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Resembling a building.
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A chamber, often below ground level, used to bury the remains of the dead.
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A cemetery or graveyard.
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A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
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(now rare) A burial ground; a graveyard or cemetery.
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The place where a dead person is buried.
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A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disinterred from their original burial places; a charnel house.
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(rare, sometimes humorous) A caveman or cavewoman.
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A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
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(politics) The casting of a cemetery vote.
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An undertaker's room where the body of the deceased is kept prior to burial or disposal.
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A repository for dead bodies.
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a vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored
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A corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.
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A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains.
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A thick candle formerly used at a lich-wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment.
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(historical) A route used to transport corpses, often from remote communities, to cemeteries where they could be buried.
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(UK, law, historical) An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.
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(UK, colloquial) crematorium
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Cremated remains of a deceased person.
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A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated.
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The establishment or furnace that cremates bodies.
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An ancient cemetery, churchyard, or burial ground.
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Archaic spelling of cemetery. [A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.]
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A Caribbean funerary tradition, an extended wake that lasts for several days, with roots in African tradition. Friends and family visit the home of the deceased to share condolences and memories while singing hymns and eating food together.
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A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.
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(US) A mortuary or funeral home.
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(figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
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(poetic) A Christian place of burial; a churchyard.
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An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
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(archaeology) The artefacts (jewellery, animals, slaves, etc) buried with a dead person in a grave or tomb.
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A tombstone or other permanent fixed object to indicate the location of a grave.
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Alternative form of grave goods [(archaeology) The artefacts (jewellery, animals, slaves, etc) buried with a dead person in a grave or tomb.]
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The place, home, abode, or world of the dead; death; grave.
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Alternative spelling of grave marker [A tombstone or other permanent fixed object to indicate the location of a grave.]
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A carved idol or representation of a god used as an object of worship.
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The area immediately around a grave.
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The location of a grave.
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The place where a grave or graves are located; a grave; a burial ground; cemetery.
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A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
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A type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds. It was popular in the pre-romantic period of 18th-century Britain.
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(historical) A place of protection, a sanctuary.
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Cooked under individual supervision rather than by a fixed industrial process.
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A Viking grave marker taking the form of a recumbent monument, generally with a curved (hogbacked) ridge and outwardly curved sides.
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(transitive) To provide (a child) with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
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The design of space inside homes and buildings, such as choice of decor and furnishings.
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One who works in interiorscaping.
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One that does landscaping.
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(historical) A heated space with an attendant, where dead bodies were kept until they showed signs of decomposition, ensuring that a live person would not be buried; a waiting mortuary.
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(archaic, UK) A corpse or dead body.
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Alternative form of lich-wake [(obsolete, Scotland) The wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial.]
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Synonym of burial ground
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Alternative spelling of lych-gate [A churchyard gateway with a roof, under which a corpse was laid during a funeral to await the arrival of the clergyman.]
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Alternative form of lich [(archaic, UK) A corpse or dead body.]
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Alternative spelling of lichfield [Synonym of burial ground]
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In ancient catacombs and tombs of some types, a small separate chamber or recess cut into the rock, for the reception of a body or urn.
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(obsolete) Alternative spelling of lich [(archaic, UK) A corpse or dead body.]
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A churchyard gateway with a roof, under which a corpse was laid during a funeral to await the arrival of the clergyman.
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Alternative spelling of lych-gate [A churchyard gateway with a roof, under which a corpse was laid during a funeral to await the arrival of the clergyman.]
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Alternative form of lich-wake [(obsolete, Scotland) The wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial.]
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Alternative form of lich [(archaic, UK) A corpse or dead body.]
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Burial of multiple bodies in a mass grave
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A grave containing many corpses.
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A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
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Obsolete spelling of mausoleum [A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.]
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A grotto where the god Mithra was worshipped.
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An important burial vault or tomb.
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gravestones or other monuments used as a memorial to the dead
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A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
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A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation.
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A totem pole erected in memory of a deceased person, holding their body or ashes.
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(historical) An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen; a mummy.
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(chiefly historical, also figuratively) A cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.
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Alternative spelling of necropolis [(chiefly historical, also figuratively) A cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.]
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Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
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(geology, taphonomy) Quick burial.
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A charnel house; an ossuary.
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A container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead.
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Synonym of passage grave
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Restore the mound or mounds of (especially, a grave or graves).
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(euphemistic) A place where one is buried or laid to rest; a tomb.
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The common law doctrine that human remains must be left undisturbed in their place of deposition.
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A stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
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(Canada, US) Alternative form of sepulchre [A burial chamber.]
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Having a hollow and deep sound.
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A sealed chamber in an Ancient Egyptian tomb that held the ka statue of a deceased individual, having a small slit or hole to allow the soul of the deceased to move about freely.
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A tomb or temple carved from the solid rock
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(archaeology) A hidden cache of objects (e.g. within the walls of a building) having some magical purpose.
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A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
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A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
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One who carries out topiary.
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One who townscapes; a town planner.
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The business establishment of an undertaker
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(US, when capitalized as "Union cemetery", with "Union" in an attributive proper noun sense) A cemetery principally for the interment of Union soldiers in the American Civil War.
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(historical, Ancient Rome) The site of a funeral pyre
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A cemetery reserved for the graves of (usually military) victims of warfare, including civil war.
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(usually in the plural) A cemetery reserved for such victims.
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(humorous) An imaginary coffin in the shape of a capital letter Y, supposedly used for burying a sexually promiscuous woman.
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