burial chamber

Noun

Meaning

a chamber that is used as a grave

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sepulchre sepulcher tomb sepulture inter barrow golgotha cemetery graves necropolis grave burial monument pit shrine
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Antonyms

house home show city household residence
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Hypernyms

chamber grave tomb

Hyponyms

monument vault repository crypt mausoleum burial vault

Examples

A Seer is taken to Mona’s burial chamber in the ruins of Atlantis, where she revives and describes the catastrophe. Source: Internet

Childe the Hunter View of the setting of Childe's Tomb According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen (burial chamber) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century. Source: Internet

Each of them contained a subterranean burial chamber and a separate, above ground chapel for mortuary rituals. Source: Internet

The pharaoh became legendary through the discovery of his burial chamber in the temple city of Luxor in 1922. Source: Internet

Its 25-ton capstone was most likely a glacial erratic (a piece of rock/conglomerate carried by glacial ice some distance from the rock outcrop from which it came): the builders dug under it and supported it with upright stones to create a burial chamber. Source: Internet

He indeed finds Alhazred's burial chamber and learns of his fate. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

burial case burial cenotaph burial ceremony burial chambers burial clothes burial garment