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Cemetery :: Cemetery (n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Necropolis :: Necropolis (n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard..

Interment :: Interment (v. t.) The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.

Crypt :: Crypt (n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory..

Dormitory :: Dormitory (n.) A burial place.

Sepulchral :: Sepulchral (a.) Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription..

Grave :: Grave (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction..

Sepelible :: Sepelible (a.) Admitting of burial.

Casket :: Casket (n.) A kind of burial case.

Obsequy :: Obsequy (n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural..

Sepelition :: Sepelition (n.) Burial.

Urn :: Urn (n.) Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

Burial :: Burial (n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment..

Trental :: Trental (n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.

Entombment :: Entombment (n.) The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial..

Burial :: Burial (n.) A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.

Burying Place :: Burying place () The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

Carnary :: Carnary (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house..

Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.

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