cemetery
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)cemeteries
- a tract of land used for burialsSynonyms: graveyardburial siteburial groundburying groundmemorial parknecropolisType of site, land siteKinds potter's field
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Translations
Noun A place where the dead are buried
- Spanish
- cementerio
- French
- cimetière
- German
- Friedhof
- Italian
- cimitero
- Portuguese
- cemitério
- Turkish
- mezarlık
- Arabic
- مَقْبَرَة maqbara
- Chinese
- 公墓 gōngmù
- Japanese
- 墓地 bochi
- Dutch
- begraafplaats
20 more languages
- Polish
- cmentarz
- Swedish
- kyrkogård
- Greek
- νεκροταφείο nekrotafío
- Indonesian
- pusara
- Portuguese (PT)
- cemitério
- Catalan
- cementiri
- Czech
- krchov
- Danish
- gravplads
- Finnish
- hautausmaa
- Georgian
- სასაფლაო sasaplao
- Icelandic
- kirkjugarður
- Kurdish
- goristan
- Latvian
- kapi
- Lithuanian
- kapinės
- Norwegian
- kirkegård
- Romanian
- cimitir
- Serbo-Croatian
- groblje
- Slovenian
- pokopališče
- Walloon
- aite
- Yiddish
- בית־עולם beys-oylem
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. cemeterium, Gr. … a sleeping chamber, burial place, fr. … to put to sleep.
A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
The Devil's Dictionary
His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them.
In the earth we here prepare a Place to lay our little Clara. Thomas M. and Mary Frazer P.S. -- Gabriel will raise her.