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cemetery definition

cem·etery (sem′ə ter′ē)

noun pl. cemeteries -·ter′·ies

a place for the burial of the dead; graveyard

Etymology: LL(Ec) coemeterium < Gr koimētērion, sleeping place (in LGr(Ec), cemetery) < koiman, to put to sleep; akin to keimai, to lie down: see home

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cemetery Synonyms

cemetery

n.

burial ground, graveyard, memorial park, funerary grounds, churchyard, necropolis, potter's field, catacomb, city of the dead, tomb, ossuary, vault, crypt, charnel house, sepulcher, mortuary, last resting place, God's acre, Golgotha, eternal home, boneyard*; see also grave 1.


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cemetery Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • excavate: She tested tissue from 134 naturally preserved bodies from an excavated cemetery in the Sudan, once part of the Egyptian empire.

Adjective modifier

  • Anglo-Saxon: Based on remains found in a grave at Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery.

Modifies a noun

  • chapel: You can hold the funeral service in a local church or in a cemetery chapel.

Noun used with modifier

  • cremation: Expectations of what a cremation cemetery could involve had changed.
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cemetery quotes

Running a cemetery isjust like being President: you got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

-Anonymous

Father declared he was going to buya new plot in the cemetery, a plot all for himself.'And I'll buy one on a corner,' he added triumphantly,'where I can get out.'

-Day, Clarence Shepard

   Dans les villes actuelles, le seul lieu,öhe¤  las encore vers la pe¤  riphe¤  rieöo  u' un the¤  a"  tre pourrait e"  tre construit, c'est le cimetie'  re. In today's cities, the only placeöunfortunately on the outskirtsöto construct a theatre is a cemetery.

-Genet,Jean

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