1a : a word or saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others as empty of real meaning the old shibboleths come rolling off their lips â Joseph Epsteinb : a widely held belief today this book publishing shibboleth is a myth â L. A. Woodc : truism, platitude some truth in the shibboleth that crime does not pay â ...
The noun interment and the verbinter (from which it is derived) are formal words that refer to the depositing of a dead body in the earthor in a tomb. The noun internment is derived from the verb intern, which refers to the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, etc.
Meaning: A ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated. Classified under: Nouns denoting natural events. Context example: hundreds of people attended his funeral. Hypernyms (funeral is a kind of...): ceremonial; ceremonial occasion; ceremony; observance (a formal event performed on a special occasion) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of funeral): burial; entombment; inhumation; interment; sepulture (the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave) sky burial (a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures)