noun. 1  An area under cultivation. 2  A group of cultivated trees or plants. 3  A large estate or farm on which crops are raised, often by resident workers. 4  A newly established settlement; a colony.
Definition of bury. buried. burying. 2a : to conceal by or as if by covering with earth a dog burying a bone buried treasureb : to cover from view buried her face in her hands Their car was buried under the snow. 6 : to defeat overwhelmingly They were buried by a score of 15-2.
Any box used to bury the dead in is a coffin. Use of the word casket in this sense began as a euphemism introduced by the undertaker 's trade in North America; a casket was originally a box for jewelry. coffin may be buried in the ground directly, placed in a burial vault or cremated. Alternatively it may be entombed above ground in a mausoleum, a chapel, a church, or in a loculus in catacombs.