Entombment

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Entombment \En*tomb"ment\, n.
     The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed;
     burial. --Barrow.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  entombment
       n : the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: {burial}, {inhumation},
            {interment}, {sepulture}]