cemetery Definition
cem·etery (sem′ə ter′ē)
noun pl. -·ter′·ies
a place for the burial of the dead; graveyard
Etymology: LL(Ec) coemeterium < Gr koimētērion, sleeping place (in LGr(Ec), cemetery) < koiman, to put to sleep; akin to keimai, to lie down: see home
cemetery Synonyms
cemetery
n.
cemetery Usage Examples
Converse of object
- desecrate: It is no good being associated by such an action with gas chambers and desecrated cemeteries.
- excavate: She tested tissue from 134 naturally preserved bodies from an excavated cemetery in the Sudan, once part of the Egyptian empire.
- overgrow: Cities are dwarfed by skies, cemeteries overgrown, castles invariably ruined.
- situate: Probably the most beautifully situated cemetery in the world.
Preposition: in
vicinity: With inhumation universal by the fourth century there ought to be inhumation cemeteries in the vicinity of Segontium, tho none are known.
Adjective modifier
- Anglo-Saxon: Based on remains found in a grave at Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery.
- communal: The communal cemetery over the road had a fascinating plaque on the wall.
- municipal: Most local history archives include cemetery records for municipal cemeteries, many of which were built in the mid to late 1850's.
- romano-british: This has never been observed in a Romano-British cemetery before, and only very rarely elsewhere in the empire.
- Jewish: K dies 3 June - buried in Jewish cemetery.
- Anglian: An Anglian cemetery dating from 500AD was found near here containing a royal grave.
Modifies a noun
- chapel: You can hold the funeral service in a local church or in a cemetery chapel.
- gate: Alternatively, walk to Blacknor along the track serving the old Fort, starting by the cemetery gates.
- :-: Among those buried in this cemetery:- DYE, Private HARRY.
Noun used with modifier
- barrow: Square barrow cemeteries come in a variety of shapes and sizes.
- cremation: Expectations of what a cremation cemetery could involve had changed.
- inhumation: With inhumation universal by the fourth century there ought to be inhumation cemeteries in the vicinity of Segontium, tho none are known.
- commonwealth: And finally, as dusk fell, to Tyne Cot, the biggest Commonwealth cemetery in the World.
- battlefield: The latter is possibly the closest of all German 1914-18 battlefield cemeteries to Paris.
- Anglo-Saxon: Sherlock, SJ & Welch, MG 1992 An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Norton, Cleveland.
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