burial

Other forms of burial

plural

burials·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about burial

What does burial mean?

burial means "the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in burial?

burial has 3 syllables: bur-i-al. The stress falls on "bur". In IPA it is /ˈbɛɹiəl/.

What is another word for burial?

Close synonyms include entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture, burying. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burial a common word?

burial is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.