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memorial park

American  

noun

  1. cemetery.


Etymology

Origin of memorial park

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Up until Glenda's death in 2011 she fought ceaselessly to have the former site of the Oxford Apartments made into a memorial park for Dahmer's victims, but it never happened.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2022

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.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022

A war memorial park with a jet fighter in Murmansk, Russia.Credit...

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2021

At most, the memorial park which has been planned by the literary people of Boston and Cambridge will include only that portion of the grounds which belonged to the poet's brothers and sisters.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)