an area set apart for or containing graves, tombs, or funeral urns, especially one that is not a churchyard; burial ground; graveyard.
Origin of cemetery
1375–1425; late Middle English <Late Latin coemētērium<Greek koimētḗrion a sleeping place, equivalent to koimē- (variant stem of koimân to put to sleep) + -tērion suffix of locality
The Safe and Quiet Skies Act would prohibit tours over national parks, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, military installations, and cemeteries.
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The site did serve as a cemetery between around 5,000 and 4,400 years ago.
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Usually, burial in a Jewish cemetery follows immediately upon a Jewish funeral, individual mourners reverently accompanying the casket to wherever the cemetery is located.
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Hospitals and cemeteries struggled to keep up, and mass graves were dug to bury the dead.
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The NYPD Emerald Society pipes and drums struck up a slow march and the procession began the journey to the cemetery.
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Now open a cemetery" or "Do you make doctors work as nurses?
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Three kids play cricket among the crude gravestones in a cemetery that is the largest in the province.
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I remember very clearly the scene at the cemetery, it was very emotional.
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And they said Glenn Evans will take you up to the cemetery, throw you in an open grave and tell you he is going to kill you.
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But an Eskimo, for his part, can sit all day as still as a tombstone in a cemetery.
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When a driven man arrives at a cemetery world, what else can it be but journey's end—and the start of a new one?
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A lot of discoloured bones were lying about among the débris disinterred from the cemetery by the bombardments.
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Lasné was among the mourners, and witnessed the interment, which took place in the cemetery of Sainte-Marguerite.
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The nature of the Santiago cemetery is entirely different from these last-mentioned two.
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British Dictionary definitions for cemetery
cemetery
/ (ˈsɛmɪtrɪ) /
nounplural-teries
a place where the dead are buried, esp one not attached to a church
Word Origin for cemetery
C14: from Late Latin coemētērium, from Greek koimētērion room for sleeping, from koiman to put to sleep