🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

무덤

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mudeom

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sepulcher/ˈsɛp.əl.kɚ/
nounverbCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"왕의 무덤은 거대한 돌로 지어졌습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

    "The ancient kings were laid to rest within a magnificent marble sepulcher."
As verb
  1. 1

    To place in or as if in a sepulcher; to bury or entomb.

    "Generations of forgotten rulers are sepulchered beneath the cathedral floor."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin word 'sepulcrum', meaning tomb or burial place, stemming from the verb 'sepelire', meaning to bury. It entered the English language during the Middle English period via Old French, retaining its solemn and architectural connotations related to death and memorialization.

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