Cemetery

Quick meaning: Cemetery is a noun meaning A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.

Meaning

A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.

Example Sentences

The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek, and Armenian, with their growth of cypress trees.

[…] the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the dead centre of town’ […]

They were probably the work of individual craftsmen working to meet the chieftains' needs. Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here.

Word Forms

• cemeteries
• cemetary
• cementery

Synonyms for cemetery

Depending on context, synonyms include boneyard, camposanto, churchyard, crypt, gravestead, graveyard.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include graveyard, necropolis, gravesite, grave, crematorium, burial.

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