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urnfield
urn·field
/
ˈɜrnˌfild
/
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[
urn
-feeld
]
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noun
a Bronze Age cemetery in
which
the ashes of the dead were buried in
urns
.
Origin:
1885–90;
urn
+
field
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urnfield
(ˈɜːnˌfiːld)
—
n
1.
a cemetery full of individual cremation urns
—
adj
2.
(of a number of Bronze Age cultures) characterized by cremation in urns, which began in E Europe about the second millennium
bc
and by the seventh century
bc
had covered almost all of mainland Europe
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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