cemeteries

Variant of cemetery

noun pl. cemeteries

a place for the burial of the dead; graveyard

Origin: LL(Ec) coemeterium < Gr koimētērion, sleeping place (in LGr(Ec), cemetery) < koiman, to put to sleep; akin to keimai, to lie down: see home

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