Cemetery

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  • noun. A place for burying the dead; a graveyard.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a tract of land used for burials
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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