interment

[in-tur-muhnt]

noun

1. the act or ceremony of interring; burial.

interment

/ ɪnˈtɜːmənt /

noun

1. burial, esp with ceremonial rites

Other Word Forms

• reinterment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of interment¹

1300–50; inter + -ment; replacing Middle English enter ( e ) ment < Middle French enterrement

Example Sentences

When he learned of Lanchester's interment, during the course of his regular research into historic death certificates, he decided she would be his next memorial project.

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Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.

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His funeral ceremony at the National Cathedral will be held the following day — which President Biden has decreed a national day of mourning — followed by a private interment in his Georgia hometown, Plains.

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Michele Castañeda-Martinez’s job as a division administrator for the county’s Department of Public Health includes ensuring a proper cremation and interment of the ashes of people who die such lonesome deaths.

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“After 200 years of being on display and subject to scientific testing, these individuals deserve an interment with all the dignity and respect that we can give them,” says Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods.

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