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memorial park

American  

noun

  1. cemetery.


Etymology

Origin of memorial park

First recorded in 1915–20


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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

Their bodies were cast into the well, which was afterward filled with earth and has since been the center of a memorial park.

From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

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