Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place for burying the dead; a graveyard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place set apart for interment; a graveyard; specifically, a burial-ground not attached to any church; a necropolis: as, Greenwood cemetery, near New York.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place where the
dead areburied ; agraveyard ormemorial park .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tract of land used for burials
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The main cemetery is modern, but further down the slope, now in a sorry state of decay, is the Chinese cemetery, presumably reserved for immigrant miners, tradespeople and their families.
Part one - La Paz and El Triunfo: from beaches and baskets to mines, music and marine park 2008
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The main cemetery is modern, but further down the slope, now in a sorry state of decay, is the Chinese cemetery, presumably reserved for immigrant miners, tradespeople and their families.
Part one - La Paz and El Triunfo: from beaches and baskets to mines, music and marine park 2008
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In between the Pentagon and the cemetery is the first permanent memorial at one of the three sites defined by the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Our favorite creature in the cemetery is a groundhog who has taken up residence under a massive stump, fringed with four-foot stalks of pokeweed.
Life Imitates Pulp 2007
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A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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