Definitions for sepulchre

sepulchre sep·ul·chre

Spelling: [sep-uh l-ker]
IPA: /ˈsɛp əl kər/

Sepulchre is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 402 anagrams from letters in sepulchre (ceehlprsu).

Definitions for sepulchre

noun

  1. a tomb, grave, or burial place.
  2. Also called Easter sepulcher. Ecclesiastical. a cavity in a mensa for containing relics of martyrs. a structure or a recess in some old churches in which the Eucharist was deposited with due ceremonies on Good Friday and taken out at Easter in commemoration of Christ's entombment and Resurrection.

verb (used with object)

  1. to place in a sepulcher; bury.

noun, verb (used with object)

  1. sepulcher.

Origin of sepulchre

1150-1200; Middle English sepulcre Old French Latin sepulcrum, equivalent to sepul- (variant stem of sepelīre to bury) + -crum noun suffix of place

Examples for sepulchre

He was buried with a sepulchre transcending in solemnity the lot of ordinary mortality.

The sepulchre of Lazarus was a cave, with a large stone upon its mouth.

The frozen world was dead, and the silence was the silence of the sepulchre.

Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

It should not be a tomb save as upon the fourth day the sepulchre in the garden!

What a place to bury a king who had built a great pyramid for his sepulchre!

The sepulchre was square, with stone walls supported by cypress beams.

At nine o'clock at night he visited the "urn" called the "sepulchre."

A family or a burial association needed a place of sepulchre.

Indeed, the sepulchre was empty now, the very ashes had been swept out of it.

Word Value for sepulchre
Scrable

16

Words with friends

19

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