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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | underground tunnel |
| Synonyms: | cave, chamber, crypt, grotto, passageway |
| Main Entry: | cemetery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial ground |
| Synonyms: | God's acre, Golgotha, boot hill, catacomb, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, eternal home, funerary grounds, garden, grave, graveyard, marble town, memorial park, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, polyandrium, potter's field, resting place, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | crypt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
| Synonyms: | catacomb, cave, cavern, cell, chamber, compartment, grave, grotto, mausoleum, room, sepulcher, tomb, undercroft, vault |
| Main Entry: | grave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
| Synonyms: | catacomb, crypt, final resting place, last home, mausoleum, mound, permanent address, place of interment, resting place, sepulcher, shrine, six feet under, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | mausoleum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tomb |
| Synonyms: | burial, burial chamber, burial place, catacomb, cemetery, charnel house, coffin, crypt, grave, monument, sepulcher, vault |
| Main Entry: | necropolis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cemetery |
| Synonyms: | God's acre, boot hill, catacomb, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, funerary grounds, graveyard, potter's field, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | tomb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
| Synonyms: | box, burial, burial chamber, catacomb, coffin, crypt, grave, mausoleum, monument, pit, sepulcher, trough, vault |
| Main Entry: | vault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depository |
| Synonyms: | basement, box, can, catacomb, cavern, cellar, crib*, crypt, dungeon, grave, mausoleum, pit, repository, safe, safe-deposit box, sepulcher, strong room, tomb |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | burial ground |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
| Synonyms: | bone orchard, bone yard, burial yard, burying ground, burying place, catacomb, cemetery, city of the dead, family plot, final resting place, graveyard, necropolis, plot, potter's field |
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