Definition of sepulchre in English:

sepulchre

(US sepulcher)

noun ˈsɛp(ə)lkəˈsɛpəlkər

A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
岩穴墓；石墓
Example sentencesExamples
- Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see.
- Both deny charges of ‘violating a sepulchre without the authority of the relatives or executors of said unknown person’.
- All around, she could feel the shapes of sepulchres and headstones.
- The public had been kept clear of the tomb, and it is unclear what level of access there had been to the king's remains before they were replaced in a new sepulchre.
- Hardening my heart with all the memories of the times mother and I visited the sepulcher where father's ashes lay in the soil, I put another foot forward.
- And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock.
- The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James.
- The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre.
- And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
- The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
- For instance, armour and other trophies were often displayed above sepulchres.
- And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
- He sees the stone rolled away from the grave of Lazarus and three men approach the sepulchre where the man's body lies.
- Deep inside, St. Francis' bones are locked away in a sepulcher, the immense weight of the Basilica - a place he would have hated - weighing down on top of him.
- In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below.
- In contrast, Moses arranged for his own discreet burial so that ‘no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day’.
- In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
- He got to a sepulcher where four Satanists were gathered.
- His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
- So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Synonyms
tomb, vault, burial place, burial chamber, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, sarcophagus, pyramid
grave
Archaeology mastaba
rare undercroft

verb ˈsɛp(ə)lkəˈsɛpəlkər

[with object]literary

1Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre.
〈主诗/文〉埋葬；掩埋
tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries
一卷卷的书印出来后被埋在图书馆的灰尘之中。
Synonyms
bury, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb, inurn
1. 1.1 Serve as a burial place for.
  作为…的墓地，埋葬
  when ocean shrouds and sepulchres our dead
  当大洋裹起并埋葬我们的死者的时候。

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum 'burial place', from sepelire 'bury'.

Definition of sepulcher in US English:

sepulcher

(British sepulchre)

nounˈsepəlkərˈsɛpəlkər

A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
岩穴墓；石墓
Example sentencesExamples
- All around, she could feel the shapes of sepulchres and headstones.
- The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre.
- He sees the stone rolled away from the grave of Lazarus and three men approach the sepulchre where the man's body lies.
- For instance, armour and other trophies were often displayed above sepulchres.
- Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see.
- In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below.
- And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
- Hardening my heart with all the memories of the times mother and I visited the sepulcher where father's ashes lay in the soil, I put another foot forward.
- Deep inside, St. Francis' bones are locked away in a sepulcher, the immense weight of the Basilica - a place he would have hated - weighing down on top of him.
- In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
- Both deny charges of ‘violating a sepulchre without the authority of the relatives or executors of said unknown person’.
- The public had been kept clear of the tomb, and it is unclear what level of access there had been to the king's remains before they were replaced in a new sepulchre.
- In contrast, Moses arranged for his own discreet burial so that ‘no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day’.
- So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
- And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
- The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
- And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock.
- His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
- The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James.
- He got to a sepulcher where four Satanists were gathered.
Synonyms
tomb, vault, burial place, burial chamber, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, sarcophagus, pyramid

verbˈsepəlkərˈsɛpəlkər

[with object]literary

1Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulcher.
〈主诗/文〉埋葬；掩埋
tomes are soon out of print and sepulchered in the dust of libraries
一卷卷的书印出来后被埋在图书馆的灰尘之中。
Synonyms
bury, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb, inurn
1. 1.1 Serve as a burial place for.
  作为…的墓地，埋葬
  when ocean shrouds and sepulchers our dead
  当大洋裹起并埋葬我们的死者的时候。

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’.

词汇	sepulchre
释义	Definition of sepulchre in English: sepulchre (US sepulcher) noun ˈsɛp(ə)lkəˈsɛpəlkər A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried. 岩穴墓；石墓 Example sentencesExamples Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see. Both deny charges of ‘violating a sepulchre without the authority of the relatives or executors of said unknown person’. All around, she could feel the shapes of sepulchres and headstones. The public had been kept clear of the tomb, and it is unclear what level of access there had been to the king's remains before they were replaced in a new sepulchre. Hardening my heart with all the memories of the times mother and I visited the sepulcher where father's ashes lay in the soil, I put another foot forward. And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock. The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James. The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose. For instance, armour and other trophies were often displayed above sepulchres. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. He sees the stone rolled away from the grave of Lazarus and three men approach the sepulchre where the man's body lies. Deep inside, St. Francis' bones are locked away in a sepulcher, the immense weight of the Basilica - a place he would have hated - weighing down on top of him. In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below. In contrast, Moses arranged for his own discreet burial so that ‘no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day’. In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew. He got to a sepulcher where four Satanists were gathered. His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. Synonyms tomb, vault, burial place, burial chamber, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, sarcophagus, pyramid grave Archaeology mastaba rare undercroft verb ˈsɛp(ə)lkəˈsɛpəlkər [with object]literary 1Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre. 〈主诗/文〉埋葬；掩埋 tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries 一卷卷的书印出来后被埋在图书馆的灰尘之中。 Synonyms bury, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb, inurn 1.1 Serve as a burial place for. 作为…的墓地，埋葬 when ocean shrouds and sepulchres our dead 当大洋裹起并埋葬我们的死者的时候。 Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum 'burial place', from sepelire 'bury'. Definition of sepulcher in US English: sepulcher (British sepulchre) nounˈsepəlkərˈsɛpəlkər A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried. 岩穴墓；石墓 Example sentencesExamples All around, she could feel the shapes of sepulchres and headstones. The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre. He sees the stone rolled away from the grave of Lazarus and three men approach the sepulchre where the man's body lies. For instance, armour and other trophies were often displayed above sepulchres. Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see. In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? Hardening my heart with all the memories of the times mother and I visited the sepulcher where father's ashes lay in the soil, I put another foot forward. Deep inside, St. Francis' bones are locked away in a sepulcher, the immense weight of the Basilica - a place he would have hated - weighing down on top of him. In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew. Both deny charges of ‘violating a sepulchre without the authority of the relatives or executors of said unknown person’. The public had been kept clear of the tomb, and it is unclear what level of access there had been to the king's remains before they were replaced in a new sepulchre. In contrast, Moses arranged for his own discreet burial so that ‘no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day’. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose. And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock. His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James. He got to a sepulcher where four Satanists were gathered. Synonyms tomb, vault, burial place, burial chamber, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, sarcophagus, pyramid verbˈsepəlkərˈsɛpəlkər [with object]literary 1Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulcher. 〈主诗/文〉埋葬；掩埋 tomes are soon out of print and sepulchered in the dust of libraries 一卷卷的书印出来后被埋在图书馆的灰尘之中。 Synonyms bury, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb, inurn 1.1 Serve as a burial place for. 作为…的墓地，埋葬 when ocean shrouds and sepulchers our dead 当大洋裹起并埋葬我们的死者的时候。 Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’.
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