- burial ceremony
- funeral, ceremony performed when burying the dead
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
burial ceremony
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full military burial ceremony — burial ceremony performed with full military honors … English contemporary dictionary
Burial at sea — for two casualties of a Japanese submarine attack on the US aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay, November 1943 Burial at sea describes the procedure of disposing of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat. It is regularly performed… … Wikipedia
ceremony — [ser′ə mō΄nē; ] chiefly Brit [, ser′əmə nē] n. pl. ceremonies [ME cerimonie < L caerimonia, awe, reverent rite, ceremony; prob. < Etr] 1. a formal act or set of formal acts established by custom or authority as proper to a special occasion … English World dictionary
burial at sea — phrase a funeral ceremony that takes place on a ship, in which the dead person’s body is dropped into the sea Thesaurus: funerals and burialhyponym Main entry: burial … Useful english dictionary
burial service — ceremony that accompanies the burying of a dead body in a grave or tomb … English contemporary dictionary
military burial ceremony — military funeral … English contemporary dictionary
burial — /ber ee euhl/, n. 1. the act or ceremony of burying. 2. the place of burying; grave. [1200 50; BURY + AL2; r. ME buriel, back formation from OE byrgels burial place, equiv. to byrg(an) to BURY + els n. suffix; cf. RIDDLE1] * * * Ritual disposal… … Universalium
Burial — This article is about human burial practices. For other uses, see Burial (disambiguation). Inhume redirects here. for the band, see Inhume (band). Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from an edition with drawings by… … Wikipedia
ceremony — noun 1 formal public/religious event ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, short ▪ quiet, simple ▪ elaborate, glittering (BrE), lavish … Collocations dictionary
burial — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ decent, proper ▪ Christian, etc. VERB + BURIAL ▪ give sb ▪ We want to give him a decent Christian burial … Collocations dictionary
