英语词汇“cemetery”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cemetery

/ˈsɛmɪtri

noun (plural cemeteries)

A large burial ground, especially one not in a churchyard: a military cemetery...

Funerals are held in churches, and burials are in churchyards or public cemeteries.
To her horror, she found there was no official record of James's burial in the cemetery.
Having looked in the local churchyards and cemeteries, I can find no trace of any Jacksons.

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

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.

单词	cemetery
释义	cemetery /ˈsɛmɪtri / noun (plural cemeteries) A large burial ground, especially one not in a churchyard: a military cemetery... Funerals are held in churches, and burials are in churchyards or public cemeteries. To her horror, she found there was no official record of James's burial in the cemetery. Having looked in the local churchyards and cemeteries, I can find no trace of any Jacksons. 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.
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