noun
Meaning 1
The act of burial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
inhumation
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/
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noun
Meaning 2
The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Arenation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: burial, entombment, interment, sepulture
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: funeral
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English inhume Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English inhumation From inhume + -ation.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: погребение (pogrebenie) — The act of burial
- Catalan: inhumació — The act of burial
- French: inhumation — The act of burial
- Galician: inhumación — The act of burial
- Galician: enterramento — The act of burial
- Galician: soterramento — The act of burial
- German: Inhumation — The act of burial
- German: Erdbestattung — The act of burial
- German: Beerdigung — The act of burial
- Italian: inumazione — The act of burial
- Polish: inhumacja — The act of burial
- Polish: pochówek — The act of burial
- Spanish: inhumación — The act of burial
- Spanish: entierro — The act of burial
- Ottoman Turkish: كوممه (gömme) — The act of burial
- Ottoman Turkish: تدفین (tedfin) — The act of burial