Meanings
plural inhumations
- countableuncountableThe act of burial.
Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.
2010 March 10, Eti Bonn-Muller, “Dynasty of Priestesses”, in archaeology.org, retrieved 10 Sep 20101 more example
"Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
1885 March 18, “Cremation or Burial”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Sep 2010 - countableuncountableThe act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
- countableuncountablemedicineArenation.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian погребение
- погребение (pogrebenie)The act of burial
Catalan inhumació
- inhumacióThe act of burial
French inhumation
- inhumationThe act of burial
German Inhumation, Erdbestattung
- InhumationThe act of burial
- ErdbestattungThe act of burial
- BeerdigungThe act of burial
Italian inumazione
- inumazioneThe act of burial
Polish inhumacja, pochówek
- inhumacjaThe act of burial
- pochówekThe act of burial
Spanish inhumación, entierro
- inhumaciónThe act of burial
- entierroThe act of burial
Cite this entry
inhumation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhumation
“inhumation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhumation. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inhumation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhumation.
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