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cemetery
[ sem-i-ter-ee ]
noun
- an area set apart for or containing graves, tombs, or funeral urns, especially one that is not a churchyard; burial ground; graveyard.
cemetery
/ ˈsɛmɪtrɪ /
noun
- a place where the dead are buried, esp one not attached to a church
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cemetery1
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Example Sentences
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.
Now 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.”
His steps led him now not to the beach, but to the Cemetery of Rocklington, amid the potato-fields.
The first interment in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise; it was laid out and prepared by order of Bonaparte.
Two days later Ollie Dangerfield was laid away under the palms and umbrella-trees in the Phœnix cemetery.
In part of an ancient arenarium converted into a cemetery in the Catacomb of St. Priscilla similar constructions may be seen.
Thus Callixtus became the syndic of the public cemetery of the church, which still bears his name.
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