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- Dictionarysep·ul·cher/ˈsepəlkər/
noun
- 1. a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
verb
- 1. lay or bury in or as if in a sepulcher: literary "tomes are soon out of print and sepulchered in the dust of libraries"
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Sepulchre is a noun meaning a place of burial or a receptacle for religious relics. It is also a verb meaning to bury or to serve as a sepulchre for. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, and etymology.
noun [ C ] old use (US also sepulcher) uk / ˈsep. ə l.kə r/ us / ˈsep. ə l.kɚ / Add to word list. a stone structure where someone is buried. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Places where bodies are buried or cremated. burial ground. catacomb. cemetery. charnel house. churchyard. columbarium. crematorium. crematory. crypt. graveside.
a structure or a recess in some old churches in which the Eucharist was deposited with due ceremonies on Good Friday and taken out at Easter in commemoration of Christ's entombment and Resurrection.
A sepulcher is a burial vault or tomb, like the one that is featured prominently in the final scenes of Romeo and Juliet. (Of course, for those who haven’t read the play yet, we’re not suggesting that anyone dies, necessarily.)
A sepulcher (or if you’re British you’ll spell it sepulchre) is basically a stone room with a stone coffin where your body lies. The word comes from the Latin sepulcrum, which means “burial place,” for obvious reasons. Pronouncing sepulcher could trick you, because the ch actually sounds like a k: "SEP-ul-ker."
A sepulcher is a burial place or receptacle for human remains, such as a tomb, grave, or crypt. Find out the origin, pronunciation, and translations of the word sepulcher in different languages.
Sepulchre is a British spelling of sepulcher, which means a tomb or burial place. Learn how to use this word in sentences from various sources, such as The Daily Beast and Project Gutenberg.
