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Definition of cemetery in English: cemeterynounPlural cemeteries ˈsɛmɪtriˈsɛməˌtɛri A large burial ground, especially one not in a churchyard. Example sentencesExamples - The Home Office has launched a review of burial law because there is a shortage of space in cemeteries across Britain.
- As a result councils, as the burial authority, must keep cemeteries safe.
- Two years ago, the cemetery suffered from a spate of vandal attacks and several tombs were damaged.
- The management and development of public cemeteries must not rely only on graveyard charges.
- The service at Harrogate is one of only a few held on Remembrance Sunday in military cemeteries in Britain.
- Can I remind both children and parents that graveyards and cemeteries are not playgrounds.
- We had experienced a really early summer and I can remember the girls at work used to go for lunch in the cemetery.
- Both his parents are dead now and I'm really the only one whose left, and I keep an eye on the cemetery.
- Christians conduct burial rites in cemeteries, and some groups visit special sacred areas.
- Thanks was extended to all who worked so hard in keeping the cemetery to such a high standard.
- I have seen the graves of the Indian soldiers in the military cemeteries of France.
- Some ask to be buried anonymously in a Zurich cemetery and a few have their bodies repatriated for burial.
- The cost of maintenance of parish cemeteries are available at the church doors.
- She said there had been vandalism and regular drug dealing in the cemetery.
- Hugh Goudge, warden at the cemetery, said they were aware of the theft problem.
- Funerals are held in churches, and burials are in churchyards or public cemeteries.
- My wife and I sat in the churchyard looking at the magnificent views from the little cemetery at the back.
- It was never a formal or tidy place, the very opposite of our municipal cemeteries and more like an unkempt churchyard.
- Having looked in the local churchyards and cemeteries, I can find no trace of any Jacksons.
- To her horror, she found there was no official record of James's burial in the cemetery.
Synonyms graveyard, churchyard, burial ground, burial place, burying place, burying ground, garden of remembrance Scottish kirkyard North American memorial park informal boneyard literary golgotha historical urnfield, potter's field, catacomb, necropolis archaic God's acre
Origin Late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek koimētērion 'dormitory', from koiman 'put to sleep'. A cemetery is literally a place for sleeping. The word came from Greek koimētērion, ‘dormitory’, from koiman ‘to put to sleep’. It was early Christian writers who first gave it the meaning of ‘burial ground’, applying it to the underground cemeteries or catacombs in Rome.
Definition of cemetery in US English: cemeterynounˈsɛməˌtɛriˈseməˌterē A burial ground; a graveyard. Example sentencesExamples - Both his parents are dead now and I'm really the only one whose left, and I keep an eye on the cemetery.
- Christians conduct burial rites in cemeteries, and some groups visit special sacred areas.
- To her horror, she found there was no official record of James's burial in the cemetery.
- Thanks was extended to all who worked so hard in keeping the cemetery to such a high standard.
- Having looked in the local churchyards and cemeteries, I can find no trace of any Jacksons.
- The cost of maintenance of parish cemeteries are available at the church doors.
- It was never a formal or tidy place, the very opposite of our municipal cemeteries and more like an unkempt churchyard.
- Hugh Goudge, warden at the cemetery, said they were aware of the theft problem.
- She said there had been vandalism and regular drug dealing in the cemetery.
- Can I remind both children and parents that graveyards and cemeteries are not playgrounds.
- Two years ago, the cemetery suffered from a spate of vandal attacks and several tombs were damaged.
- We had experienced a really early summer and I can remember the girls at work used to go for lunch in the cemetery.
- The service at Harrogate is one of only a few held on Remembrance Sunday in military cemeteries in Britain.
- The Home Office has launched a review of burial law because there is a shortage of space in cemeteries across Britain.
- I have seen the graves of the Indian soldiers in the military cemeteries of France.
- My wife and I sat in the churchyard looking at the magnificent views from the little cemetery at the back.
- The management and development of public cemeteries must not rely only on graveyard charges.
- As a result councils, as the burial authority, must keep cemeteries safe.
- Funerals are held in churches, and burials are in churchyards or public cemeteries.
- Some ask to be buried anonymously in a Zurich cemetery and a few have their bodies repatriated for burial.
Synonyms graveyard, churchyard, burial ground, burial place, burying place, burying ground, garden of remembrance
Origin Late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek koimētērion ‘dormitory’, from koiman ‘put to sleep’. |