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Definition: Inhumation |
InhumationNoun1. The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inhumation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
Etymology: Inhumation \In`hu*ma"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression inhumation.]. (references) |
Synonyms: InhumationSynonyms: burial (n), entombment (n), interment (n), sepulture (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interment | Noun: interment, burial, sepulture; inhumation; obsequies, exequies; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inhumation |
| English words defined with "inhumation": Burial service ♦ Humation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Inhumation" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (inhumation, interment). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We will say, by the way, the inhumation of Mother Crucifixion under the convent altar is, to us, a perfectly venial thing |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Inhumation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inhumation" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inhumation | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inhumation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | varrosje (burying, entombment, interment). (various references) | |
Arabic | دفن (burial, bury, earth, entomb, funeral, inhume, inter, interment, lay, lay to rest, put away). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | закопаване, погребване (burial, entombment, interment, sepulture), погребение (burial, entombment, funeral, interment, obsequies, sepulture). (various references) | |
Czech | pohřbení (burial, entombment). (various references) | |
French | inhumation (interment), enterrement (interment). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elföldelés (entombment). (various references) | |
Italian | inumazione (burial). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inhumationay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inumao, enterramento (sepulture). (various references) | |
Romanian | înmormântare (burial, funeral, interment, laying out, obsequies, sepulture), înhumare (burial, interment, sepulture), îngropare (burial, burying, committal, entombment). (various references) | |
Russian | предание земле. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukopavanje (digging in, lodgement), pokop (burial). (various references) | |
Spanish | inhumación (burial). (various references) | |
Swedish | begravning (burial, funeral, interment). (various references) | |
Turkish | gömme (built in, burial, burying, committal service, entombment, flush, inlaid, interment, let in, sepulture, sunk, sunken), defnetme (burying, committal service). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | похорон (burial, entombment, funeral, obsequies), поховання (burial, committal, interment, obsequies, sepulture). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inhumation": inhumations. (additional references) | |
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"Inhumation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inhumain. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "inhumation" (pronounced 'In`hu*ma"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-i-m-n-n-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: himation, hominian, mountain, munition. | |
-3 letters: inhuman, manhunt, manihot, manitou, minutia, thiamin, thionin, tinamou. | |
-4 letters: amnion, amount, anoint, intima, ionium, mahout, manito, manitu, minion, muntin, nation, nomina, numina, outman, tahini, tinman. | |
-5 letters: amino, amnio, animi, anion, haunt, honan, human, imino, inion, matin, miaou, month, mount, mouth, muton, ninth, niton, notum, onium, toman, unhat, union, unman. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-i-m-n-n-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: inhumations. | |
+2 letters: humanization. | |
+3 letters: humanizations. | |
+4 letters: dehumanization. | |
+5 letters: dehumanizations. | |
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