word-vault/dist/data/cards/bu/burial.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "burial",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the act or ceremony of burying a dead body",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **burial place/mound/site**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her body was sent home for burial."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His family insisted he should be given a proper burial."
                },
                {
                    "text": "baptism, marriage and burial services"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His body was returned home for burial."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were objections to the body's burial in consecrated ground."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We want to give him a decent burial."
                },
                {
                    "text": "disturbing an ancient burial site"
                },
                {
                    "text": "preventing the body's burial in consecrated ground"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Religion and festivals", "Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["decent", "proper", "Christian"],
                "verb + burial": ["give somebody", "attend", "go to"],
                "burial + verb": ["take place"],
                "burial + noun": ["chamber", "ground", "mound"],
                "preposition": ["for burial", "burial in"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberiəl/",
                "audio": "bu/burial/burial__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberiəl/",
                "audio": "bu/burial/burial__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English byrgels ‘place of burial, grave’ (interpreted as plural in Middle English, hence the loss of the final -s), of Germanic origin; related to bury."
}