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Webster 1913 Edition

Cremation

Cre-ma′tion

(kr?-m?′sh?n)

,

Noun.

[L.

crematio

.]

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.

Without

cremation

. . . of their bodies.

Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cremation

CREMATION

,

Noun.

[L., to burn.] A burning; particularly, the burning of the dead, according to the custom of many ancient nations.

Definition 2024

cremation

cremation

See also: crémation

English

Noun

cremation ‎(plural cremations)

A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.
Cremation removes a significant amount of "closure" from the process of death.

Synonyms

incineration

Related terms

Translations

burning

Afrikaans: verassing, lykverbranding, kremasie
Bulgarian: изгаряне n ‎(izgarjane), кремация f ‎(kremacija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 火葬 (zh) ‎(huǒzàng)
Czech: kremace (cs) f
Danish:
Dutch: crematie (nl) f
Esperanto: kremacio
Finnish: polttaminen (fi); polttohautaus
French: crémation (fr)
German: Einäscherung (de) f, Feuerbestattung (de) f, Kremation f, Kremierung f, (corpse) Leichenverbrennung (de) f
Greek: αποτέφρωση (el) f ‎(apotéfrosi)
Hebrew:
Hungarian: hamvasztás (hu)
Irish: créamadh m
Italian: cremazione (it) f

Japanese: 火葬 (ja) ‎(かそう, kasō)
Korean: 화장 (ko) ‎(hwajang) (火葬 (ko)), 소각 (ko) ‎(sogak)
Latin: cremātiō f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kremasjon m

Nynorsk: kremasjon m
Polish: kremacja (pl)
Portuguese: cremação (pt)
Russian: крема́ция (ru) f ‎(kremácija)
Slovak: kremácia f
Spanish: cremación (es) f
Swedish: likbränning (sv) c, kremering (sv) c, kremation (sv) c
Thai: ฌาปนกิจ (th) ‎(chaa-bpà-ná-gìt)
Vietnamese: sự hoả táng (vi) (sự (vi) + 火葬)
Volapük: fefilükam, (corpse) funifefilükam
Welsh: amlosgiad m, darlosgiad m, corfflosgiad m

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