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Webster 1913 Edition

Cemetery

Cem′e-ter-y

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Cemeteries

.

[L.

cemeterium

, Gr. [GREEK] a sleeping chamber, burial place, fr. [GREEK] to put to sleep.]

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cemetery

CEMETERY

,

Noun.

A place where the dead bodies of human beings are buried.

Definition 2024

cemetery

cemetery

English

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

Alternative forms

cœmeterium (history)
cœmetery (archaic)

Noun

cemetery ‎(plural cemeteries)

A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 2
  The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek, and Armenian, with their growth of cypress trees; [...]

Synonyms

See also Wikisaurus:cemetery

Translations

a place where the dead are buried — see graveyard

See also