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What is another word for sepulchers?

Pronunciation: [sˈɛpʌlt͡ʃəz] (IPA)

Sepulchers are defined as tombs or burial chambers consisting of a small room or monument. There are many synonyms that can be used to describe sepulchers including crypts, mausoleums, tombs, sarcophagi, catacombs, burial grounds, and graveyards. A crypt is a room beneath a church used for burials, while mausoleums are elaborate structures built to house tombs or burial chambers. Tombs can be in the form of small memorials or larger monuments, while the term sarcophagi refers specifically to stone coffins, often decorated with elaborate carvings. Catacombs are underground tunnels or rooms used for burials, while burial grounds and graveyards are open-air spaces designated for burials. All of these synonyms are used to describe the final resting places of the deceased.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Sepulchers

It was while in northern Israel, where he ordered the dead bones of the idolatrous priests to be burned upon the very altars at which they worshiped, that Josiah espied two sepulchers, of a type that he had not met before.
"Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)"
Isaac Landman
They were so unlike the sepulchers of the idolators that he marked them especially and talked about them.
"Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)"
Isaac Landman
Perhaps "mock" would better express her whim, for many of these fair settlements in the days of the Prohibition Laws were veritable sepulchers of crime, only whitewashed by the humorous mood of nature.
"The Law-Breakers"
Ridgwell Cullum

Famous quotes with Sepulchers

  • “The law,” he said, “is above the criminal and the judge, and rules them both. The law is inescapable, for an action is either lawful or unlawful. The law, indeed, may be said to have a life of its own, an existence quite apart from the finite lives of the beings who administer it. The law governs every aspect of human behavior; therefore, to the same extent that humans are lawful beings, the law is human. And being human, the law has its idiosyncrasies, just as a man has his. For a citizen who abides by the law, the law is distant and difficult to find. For those who reject and violate it, the law emerges from its musty sepulchers and goes in search of the transgressor.”
    Robert Sheckley

Related words: funerary monuments, funeral monuments, burial vaults, mausoleums, sepulcher, burial monuments, memorials

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