SKY BURIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sky burial mean? 

• SKY BURIAL (noun)
  The noun SKY BURIAL has 1 sense:

1. a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures

  Familiarity information: SKY BURIAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKY BURIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("sky burial" is a kind of...):

funeral; obsequy (a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated)