interment
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- reinterment noun
Etymology
Origin of interment
1300–50; inter + -ment; replacing Middle English enter ( e ) ment < Middle French enterrement
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Example Sentences
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“Here’s our North Star: Does this help us win?” he said in a mid-December statement announcing his turnabout and the study’s unceremonious interment.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025
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.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025
Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
“This moment,” said the Rev. Jesse Wendell Mapson, a local pastor involved in planning the commemoration and interment of the 19, “has not come without some pain, discomfort and tension.”
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024
And I remembered how intensely I felt about my interment.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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