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Answer for the clue "Egyptian burial building ", 7 letters:
pyramid

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pyramid \Pyr"a*mid\, v. t. (Speculation) To use, or to deal in, in a pyramiding transaction. See Pyramid , v. i.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s (earlier in Latin form piramis , late 14c.), from French pyramide (Old French piramide "obelisk, stela," 12c.), from Latin pyramides , plural of pyramis "one of the pyramids of Egypt," from Greek pyramis (plural pyramides ) "a pyramid," apparently ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pyramid is the third album by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project , released in 1978. It is a concept album centred on the pyramids of Giza . At the time the album was conceived, interest in pyramid power and Tutankhamun was widespread in the ...

Usage examples of pyramid.

If the White House had underreacted to the Egyptian pyramids allegation, it overreacted to the Amaretto and cream tale.

Near the foot-bridge that stretched over the grey tops of the Atlas cedars, stood a white truncated pyramid of porcelain-like aplite from the River Lualaba, surmounted by the statue of a worker of an age long past.

It is that when another king follows another Queen of Egypt up the pyramid whence this one fell, whichever it may have been, and there wins her love, the avenging spirit of her who threw herself thence will find rest and no more bring destruction upon men.

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.

Great Pyramid there is a certain Buffard, 79 rue St Martin, wallpaper manufacturer, in black letters.

Byzantine-Romanesque surprise which was heaped in bulbiferous pyramids atop the Hill of the Martyrs in the late nineteenth century, soon after the city had finished installing a comprehensive new sewage systen.

Esther was quick, as she came down before I had extracted from the pyramid the letters which were to compose my reply, but as I knew what to say as soon as I saw her father read the answer she gave him I was not long in finishing what I had to do.

I was making the pyramid the command came to me to set them down, and I thought it well to obey.

She then erected another pyramid to obtain guidance on our quest, and I so directed things that the answer came that she must write to the moon.

My research has filled me with respect for the logical thinking, high science, deep psychological insights, and vast cosmographical knowledge of the ancient geniuses who composed those myths, and who, I am now fully persuaded, descended from the same lost civilization that produced the map-makers, pyramid builders, navigators, astronomers and earth-measurers whose fingerprints we have been following across the continents and oceans of the earth.

As soon as I had extracted all the combinations of numbers from the pyramid she said, quietly, that as I did not want to know the answer, she would be much obliged if I would let her translate the cypher.

Another implication was that the master-builders of Teotihuacan must have possessed an enormous body of astronomic and geodetic data and referred to this data to set the Sun Pyramid at the precise orientation necessary to achieve the desired equinoctial effects.

The only thing else he lets you know about the passage is that it contains 30 words and 124 Hebrew letters, and that when the numerical value of these ancient words and letters is added up by a process known as gematria the sum total of the passage equals 5,449, which is the height of the Great Pyramid in Pyramid inches.

He left his partners at the geometer gate, bursting through to the other side with brilliant streamers of an erotic pyramid trailing behind, then swinging in a sharp arc into the geometer barrel of Rauhl Bey Singh.

Yet, it is very true that, if I had not formed my pyramid, I never should have had the happiness of knowing your excellency.