how to pronounce sepulchre

/ˈsɛp.əl.kəɹ/

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sepulchre is pronounced in three syllables

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sɛpəlkəɹ

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An example use of sepulchre in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… the church of the holy sepulchre the …”

meanings of sepulchre

noun:

  1. A recess in some early churches in which the reserved sacrament, etc. were kept from Good Friday till Easter.
  2. A burial chamber.

verb:

  1. To place in a sepulchre.

sepulchre frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sepulchre occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sepulchre can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sepulchre can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

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