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sky burials

sky burials is the plural of sky burial.

Meaning of sky burial

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

Questions about sky burials

What is sky burials the plural of?
Sky burials is the plural of sky burial.

Words near sky burials in the dictionary

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

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