interment
Laying to rest
Interment is the burial of a corpse, or the placing of cremated remains in a final resting place.
The word is formal and appears most often in official contexts such as funeral announcements, cemetery records, and legal documents.
The interment will take place at Greenwood Cemetery following the memorial service.
It is sometimes confused with internment, which refers to imprisonment or confinement.
Placing in a sepulcher
- inhumationBurial of the dead
- sepultureCeremonial burial of dead
- inhumeBury in ground
- casketBurial container
coffin · shroud · vault · crypt · tomb · mausoleum · sepulcher · grave
Place for interring remains
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- necropolisAncient cemetery complex
- churchyardBurial ground beside chapel
- columbariumStructure housing cremated remains
ossuary · catacomb · charnel-house · mausoleum · crypt · vault · tomb · plot
Service honoring the dead
- obsequiesFormal burial rites
- gravesideBeside a burial plot
- processionFormal moving line
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
eulogy · viewing · wake · memorial · hearse · flowers · officiant · clergy
Memorial stone at grave
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
- gravestoneBurial site marker
- epitaphText honoring the deceased
- markerSomething that signals location
monument · plaque · inscription · cenotaph · obelisk · memorial · remembrance · tribute
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lossBeing without something
- condolencesExpressions of grief support
sympathy · lamentation · grieving · anguish · heartache · solace · comfort · closure
entombment
Placing in a sepulcher
- inhumationBurial of the dead
- sepultureCeremonial burial of dead
- inhumeBury in ground
casket · coffin · shroud · vault · crypt · tomb · mausoleum · sepulcher · grave · plot
cemetery
Place for interring remains
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- necropolisAncient cemetery complex
- churchyardBurial ground beside chapel
columbarium · ossuary · catacomb · charnel-house · mausoleum · crypt · vault · tomb · plot · crematorium
funeral
Service honoring the dead
- obsequiesFormal burial rites
- gravesideBeside a burial plot
- processionFormal moving line
pallbearers · eulogy · viewing · wake · memorial · hearse · flowers · officiant · clergy · mourners
tombstone
Memorial stone at grave
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
- gravestoneBurial site marker
- epitaphText honoring the deceased
marker · monument · plaque · inscription · cenotaph · obelisk · memorial · remembrance · tribute · wreath
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lossBeing without something
condolences · sympathy · lamentation · grieving · anguish · heartache · solace · comfort · closure · farewell
- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, casket
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- cemeterygrave, headstone, headstones, graves, tombstone
- milestonesgraduation, wedding, birthday, retirement, birth
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
intermentexhumation
Recovering buried remains
disinterment · unearthing · exhuming · digging up · resurrection
intermentcremation
Burning the deceased
incineration · sky burial · sea burial · mummification · cryopreservation
intermentresurrection
Revival from death
rising · revival · rebirth · reanimation