BURIAL VAULT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A burial chamber (usually underground)

Synonyms:

burial vault; vault

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("burial vault" is a kind of...):

burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burial vault"):

charnel; charnel house (a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited)

columbarium (a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns)