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# cremation

«cremation» in Mova's school dictionary: **burning a dead person's body to ashes, as a respectful…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cremation, a cremation, cremations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cremation is burning a dead person's body to ashes, as a respectful way of saying goodbye instead of burying it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/#m1)

2) A cremation is the ceremony or event when this happens, often at a crematorium after a funeral service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In family life, after a death, relatives choose burial or cremation; the ashes may be kept in an urn, buried, or scattered in a special place. Hindus and Sikhs usually cremate; many Christians and humanists choose either; Jewish and Muslim tradition usually prefers burial. Phrases: burial or cremation, the cremation service, scatter the ashes, crematorium.

### examples

- Grandpa wanted a cremation, so his ashes are by the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/#x1)
- The cremation took place at the crematorium after the church service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/#x2)
- We scattered Nan's ashes in her favourite garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/#x3)
- In Hinduism, cremation is the usual custom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/#x4)
- The family talked gently about whether to choose burial or cremation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/#x5)
- After the cremation, people shared stories over tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/#x6)
- But it is not certain that burial by cremation was universally practised by the heathen Slavonians. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/#x7)

### note

Countable for events; uncountable for the practice. Verb cremate (cremated). Place: crematorium. A sad but normal part of life; talk about it gently.

### In the corpora

- [Cremation means the body is burned in a crematorium until only ashes are left; the dead person cannot feel anything.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cremation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.