memorial park

noun

1. cemetery.

Word History and Origins

Origin of memorial park¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

Today, there’s a small memorial park named after Keller visible from the windows of the storefront Brandhorst was eyeing.

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News of his possible visit broke on Friday and stole the limelight, just as leaders visited a peace memorial park in Hiroshima.

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“The president won’t be making a statement at the peace memorial park,” he told reporters on Air Force One.

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The small memorial park is in a town called Jim Thorpe, Pa. Despite his decades of constant travel with countless sports teams, Thorpe never set foot there.

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Despite these changes, the memorial park has never materialized.

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Related Words

• garden 
• graveyard 
• mortuary 
• tomb