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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, cromlech, crypt, deep six, dokhma, dolmen, ensepulcher, entomb, grave, house of death, inhume, inter, last home, lay away, long home, low green tent, low house, mastaba, mausoleum, monstrance, mummy chamber, narrow house, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pit, plant, put away, pyramid, reliquary, resting place, sepulture, shaft grave, shrine, stupa, tomb, tope, tower of silence, tumulus, vault
Dictionary Results for sepulcher:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
sepulcher
    n 1: a chamber that is used as a grave [syn: burial chamber,
         sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sepulcher \Sep"ul*cher\, Sepulchre \Sep"ul*chre\, v. t. [imp. &
   p. p. Sepulcheredor Sepulchred; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Sepulcheringor Sepulchring.]
   To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
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         And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie
         That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. --Milton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sepulcher \Sep"ul*cher\, Sepulchre \Sep"ul*chre\, n. [OE.
   sepulcre, OF. sepulcre, F. s['e]pulcre, fr. L. sepulcrum,
   sepulchrum, fr. sepelire to bury.]
   The place in which the dead body of a human being is
   interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a
   tomb.
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         The stony entrance of this sepulcher.    --Shak.
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         The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early,
         when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher. --John xx. 1.
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   A whited sepulcher. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly
      but unclean or vile within. See --Matt. xxiii. 27.
      [1913 Webster] Sepulcher
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