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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SEPULTURE

Via Old French from Latin sepultūra, from sepultus buried, from sepelīre to bury.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SEPULTURE

sepulture  [ˈsɛpəltʃə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEPULTURE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sepulture is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SEPULTURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sepulture

Burial

Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal, and/or objects into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased or the object in it, and covering it over.

Definition of sepulture in the English dictionary

The definition of sepulture in the dictionary is the act of placing in a sepulchre.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SEPULTURE


agriculture
ˈæɡrɪˌkʌltʃə
apiculture
ˈeɪpɪˌkʌltʃə
aquaculture
ˈækwəˌkʌltʃə
arboriculture
ˈɑːbərɪˌkʌltʃə
belcher
ˈbeltʃə
coculture
ˌkəʊˈkʌltʃə
counterculture
ˈkaʊntəˌkʌltʃə
culture
ˈkʌltʃə
horticulture
ˈhɔːtɪˌkʌltʃə
mariculture
ˈmærɪˌkʌltʃə
permaculture
ˈpɜːməˌkʌltʃə
pilcher
ˈpɪltʃə
polyculture
ˈpɒlɪˌkʌltʃə
sericulture
ˈsɛrɪˌkʌltʃə
subculture
ˈsʌbˌkʌltʃə
viniculture
ˈvɪnɪˌkʌltʃə
viticulture
ˈvɪtɪˌkʌltʃə
vivisepulture
ˌvɪvɪˈsɛpəltʃə
vulture
ˈvʌltʃə
Wiltshire
ˈwɪltʃə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEPULTURE

septime
septimole
septivalent
septleva
septuagenarian
septuagenary
Septuagesima
Septuagint
septum
septuor
septuple
septuplet
septuplicate
sepulcher
sepulchral
sepulchrally
sepulchre
sepulchrous
sepultural
seq.

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEPULTURE

adventure
aquiculture
aviculture
black vulture
cell culture
club culture
corporate culture
culture vulture
gun culture
interculture
monoculture
organizational culture
pisciculture
popular culture
pure culture
silviculture
sylviculture
tissue culture
turkey vulture
vermiculture
youth culture

Synonyms and antonyms of sepulture in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sepulture» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEPULTURE

Find out the translation of sepulture to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sepulture from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sepulture» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

sepulture
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sepultura
570 millions of speakers

English

sepulture
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समाधि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

sepulture
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

погребения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sepulture
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমাহিতকরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sépulture
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bestattung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

sepulture
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sepulture
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kebo
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chôn xuống mộ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புதைத்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शिंपला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

defin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sepoltura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pochówki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поховання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înmormântare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενταφιασμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Sepulture
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sepulture
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sepulture
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sepulture

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEPULTURE»

The term «sepulture» is regularly used and occupies the 105.536 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEPULTURE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sepulture» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sepulture» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sepulture

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEPULTURE»

Discover the use of sepulture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sepulture and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sepulture: Its History, Methods and Sanitary Requisites
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Stephen Wickes, 2012
2
Ecclesiastical Sepulture in the New Code of Canon Law
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
John Anthony O'Reilly, 2011
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Necropolis Glasguensis; with observations on ancient and ...
48 CHURCH AND CRYPT SEPULTURE. much felt, for although this portion of its population has been, for these twenty years, increasing, in a geometrical ratio, no additional place of sepulture suited to its peculiar wants has been made either ...
John Strang, 1831
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A Lexical Concordance to the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: S-T
sepulcher, tomb 1: sepulcre[l] D. KB 498 As was the sepulcre of hym Daryus, sepulture n. [ <MED>; <OED> s.v. sepulture sb.] sepulcher, tomb; burial 7: sepulture[7] A KN 2854 Caste now wher that the sepulture C. P0 558 For dronkenesse is ...
Akio Oizumi, Geoffrey Chaucer, 2003
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Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French ...
A Study in Paradoxes Florence Martin Djebar in Georgetown IN A LECTURE DELIVERED AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY in the fall of 2002, Assia Djebar described La Femme sans sepulture as a way to meet her pressing need to " ecrire la ...
Alec G. Hargreaves, 2005
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After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver
American courts in the nineteenth century deemed this duty of decent sepulture a “sacred trust” derived from “the universal feelings of mankind.”21 The goals were to provide respectful repose for sacrosanct human remains in preparation for ...
Norman L. Cantor, 2010
7
Sepulture of Major General Nathanael Greene: And of Brig. ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Charles Colcock Jones, 2013
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English synonymes: Explained in alphabetical order
SEPULTURE. BURIAL from bury, in Saxon birian, bi~ rigan, German berge'n, signifies in the original sense to conceal. INTERMENT from inter, compounded of in and term, signifies the putting into the ground. SEPUI.TURE, in French sepulture ...
George Crabb, J. H. Hedley, 1839
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Remembering the (post)colonial Self: Memory and Identity in ...
Chapter Six La Femme sans sepulture: Exorcising the Ghosts of Memory La Femme sans sepulture was published in 2002.1 However, the work had been in gestation since the late 1970s, when Djebar first learned about Zoulikha, a local ...
Jenny Murray, 2008
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English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
SEPULTURE, in French sepallure, Latin sepulturu, from sepultus, articiple of sepelio to bury, comes rom sepes a hedge, signifying an enclosure, and probably likewise from the Hebrew sabat to put to rest, or in estate of privacy. Under burial is ...
George Crabb, 1818

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« EDUCALINGO. Sepulture [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sepulture>. May 2024 ».
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