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means A sealed room within a tomb, mound, or pyramid built specifically to hold a body and the goods meant to accompany it into the afterlife.

from A plain compound: 'burial' comes from Old English byrgan, 'to bury, hide, protect,' rooted in the ancient Germanic idea of sheltering a body underground — a cousin of 'borrow' and 'burrow,' both carrying that sense of a hidden, covered place. 'Chamber' arrived through French chambre from Latin camera, 'vaulted room,' itself from Greek kamara. So the phrase literally means 'the vaulted room for hiding the dead' — architecture and language agreeing, across languages and centuries, that the dead need a room, not just a hole.