{
  "biers":{
    "a boxlike container for holding a dead body":{
      "examples":[
        "lifted the bier from its stand and placed it in the hearse for its final journey"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "boxes",
        "caskets",
        "coffins",
        "palls",
        "sarcophagi",
        "sarcophaguses"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "charnels",
        "charnel houses",
        "crypts",
        "sepulchres",
        "sepulchers",
        "sepultures",
        "tombs",
        "vaults",
        "urns",
        "body bags"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}