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sky burial

sky burial noun: a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.

Noun

sky burial (countable and uncountable, plural sky burials)

  1. A funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.
    • “A sky burial? What’s that?”
      “Just what it says. You bury them in the sky. They do it in Tibet and places. You bring the dead body to a mountain and leave it so they can be out in the open until they're not.”2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 423
    Synonyms:
    wind burial

sky burial meaning in Indonesian and Persian

sky burial in Indonesian

funeral practice
pemakaman langit

sky burial in Persian

funeral practice
خاکسپاری آسمانی

Synonyms of sky burial

Forms of sky burial

pluralsky burials

Questions about sky burial

What does sky burial mean?
Sky burial means a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed atop a mountain or other outdoor structure to decompose or be eaten by scavenging animals.
What is sky burial in Indonesian?
Sky burial in Indonesian is pemakaman langit. See Sky burial meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is sky burial?
Sky burial is a noun.
What is the plural of sky burial?
The plural of sky burial is sky burials.

Words near sky burial in the dictionary

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  2. sky blue
  3. sky blue pink
  4. sky blue-pink
  5. sky blues
  6. sky burial
  7. sky burials
  8. sky cavalry
  9. sky daddies
  10. sky daddy
  11. sky diving

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