Synonyms for cemetery

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sem-i-ter-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛm ɪˌtɛr i

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Définition of cemetery

Origin : late 14c., from Old French cimetiere "graveyard" (12c.), from Late Latin coemeterium, from Greek koimeterion "sleeping place, dormitory," from koiman "to put to sleep," keimai "I lie down," from PIE root *kei- "to lie, rest," also "bed, couch," hence secondary sense of "beloved, dear" (cf. Greek keisthai "to lie, lie asleep," Old Church Slavonic semija "family, domestic servants," Lithuanian šeima "domestic servants," Lettish sieva "wife," Old English hiwan "members of a household," higid "measure of land," Latin cunae "a cradle," Sanskrit Sivah "propitious, gracious"). Early Christian writers were the first to use it for "burial ground," though the Greek word also had been anciently used in reference to the sleep of death. An Old English word for "cemetery" was licburg.

noun burial ground

Example sentences :

Passing the Jewish cemetery, Kate and Harry paused a moment.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Macarius was attacked when in a cemetery, and passed a whole night in defending himself.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

Not long since I took occasion to visit the cemetery near this city.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

Tip watched her, and she took the road leading to the cemetery.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

This we dignified, even in common speech; it was always grandly "the Cemetery."
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

We don't need to be already thinking of the cemetery, do we?
Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington

She was going to have her green corner in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

I was told that many of the bodies had been buried in trenches in a corner of the cemetery.
Extract from : « The Flood » by Emile Zola

I found it on Cemetery Hill in company with the Amanitopsis.
Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard

He was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Joseph, by the side of Moliere.
Extract from : « Quotes and Images From The Tales and Novels of Jean de La Fontaine » by Jean de La Fontaine

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