cemetery
an area set apart for or containing graves, tombs, or funeral urns, especially one that is not a churchyard; burial ground; graveyard.
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“Sometimes, I just want to grab people and shake them awake,” said Robbins, as he walked up the well-worn cemetery path on a recent Friday to the shiny bronze marker bearing his son’s name.
For months, he helped his son keep suicidal thoughts at bay. Then came the pandemic. | William Wan | November 23, 2020 | Washington PostThe Safe and Quiet Skies Act would prohibit tours over national parks, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, military installations, and cemeteries.
The FAA Is Enabling Helicopters to Ruin the Outdoors | Frederick Reimers | October 3, 2020 | Outside OnlineThe site did serve as a cemetery between around 5,000 and 4,400 years ago.
Stonehenge enhanced voices and music within the stone ring | Bruce Bower | September 29, 2020 | Science News For StudentsUsually, burial in a Jewish cemetery follows immediately upon a Jewish funeral, individual mourners reverently accompanying the casket to wherever the cemetery is located.
In Death, As In Life, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Balanced Being American And Jewish | LGBTQ-Editor | September 25, 2020 | No Straight NewsHospitals and cemeteries struggled to keep up, and mass graves were dug to bury the dead.
A Brazilian city devastated by COVID-19 may have reached herd immunity | Jonathan Lambert | September 24, 2020 | Science News
The procession continued on to the Cypress Hill cemetery, where Ramos was buried the week before.
The NYPD Emerald Society pipes and drums struck up a slow march and the procession began the journey to the cemetery.
Choking Back Tears, Thousands of Cops Honor Fallen Officer Ramos | Michael Daly | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow open a cemetery" or "Do you make doctors work as nurses?
“We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery,” he said.
He is known for bragging about how he has “filled a whole cemetery.”
Days of Mafia Mayhem Are Wracking Italy Once Again | Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis steps led him now not to the beach, but to the cemetery of Rocklington, amid the potato-fields.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingThe first interment in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise; it was laid out and prepared by order of Bonaparte.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellTwo days later Ollie Dangerfield was laid away under the palms and umbrella-trees in the Phœnix cemetery.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run | Stanley R. MatthewsIn part of an ancient arenarium converted into a cemetery in the Catacomb of St. Priscilla similar constructions may be seen.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowThus Callixtus became the syndic of the public cemetery of the church, which still bears his name.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow
British Dictionary definitions for cemetery
/ (ˈsɛmɪtrɪ) /
a place where the dead are buried, esp one not attached to a church
Origin of cemetery
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