interment

What it means

1. countableuncountableThe act of burying a dead body; burial.

   She was to be given a state funeral, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.

   2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 784

   2 more examples

   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.

   1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 101

   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.

   2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 189

   Synonyms: burial, deposition obs., inhumation, deep six idiom

In a sentence

She was to be given a state funeral, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.

2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 784

Where it comes from

1. Old Frenchenterrement
2. Middle Englishenterement
3. Englishinterment

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