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                                Tumulus
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        Tumulus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Tumulus has 1 sense
- tumulus(n = noun.artifact) barrow, burial mound, grave mound - (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs; Array is a kind of hill, mound
 
CIDE DICTIONARY
Tumulus, n. [L., a mound, a sepulchral mound, probably from tumere to swell.  Cf. Tumid.]. 
                                            
                                         An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.                                                                                 [1913 Webster]                                                                                                                    
                                                                                    OXFORD DICTIONARY
Tumulus, n.  (pl.  tumuli) an ancient burial mound or barrow.
                    Derivative
                        tumular adj.
                                                                Etymology
                        L f.  tumere swell
                                    ROGET THESAURUS
Tumulus
Interment
N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.
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