different between hearse vs burial

English

Etymology

From Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce, from Medieval Latin hercia, from Latin herpicem, hirpex; ultimately from Oscan ???????????????????????? (hirpus, “wolf”), a reference to the teeth. The Oscan term is related to Latin h?rs?tus (“bristly, shaggy”). Doublet of hirsute.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hûrs
• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h??s/, [h?s]
• Rhymes: -??(r)s

Noun

hearse (plural hearses)

1. A hind (female deer) in the second year of her age.
2. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
3. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
4. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
5. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.

Translations

References

• hearse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “hearse” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “hearse”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Verb

hearse (third-person singular simple present hearses, present participle hearsing, simple past and past participle hearsed)

1. (dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

Anagrams

• harees, heares, sharee

English

Alternative forms

• buriall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beriel, a re-interpretation of Old English byr?els as a plural, from byr?an (“to bury”) + -els.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b????l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??i?l/
• (regional US) IPA^(key): /?b?i?l/

Noun

burial (countable and uncountable, plural burials)

1. The act of burying; interment

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:interment

Translations