interment

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈtɝmənt/
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/ɪnˈtɝmənt/ · /ɪnˈtɜːmənt/

Definition of interment

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of burying a dead body; burial.
    “In a chamber tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great Mycenæan body shield, although not of the usual figure-of-eight shape. A false neck vase, however, that belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in shape and design, similar to one found at Muliana in company with two late bronze broadswords, and bronze brooches like those found at Thunder Hill.”
    “She was to be given a state funeral, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.”
    “The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.”

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Etymology

From Middle English enterement, interment, from Old French enterrement. By surface analysis, inter + -ment.

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