noun
cemetery
SEM-uh-tair-ee/ˈseməteri/
a place where dead people are buried
Upright gravestones stand beside a narrow grass path in the cemetery.
Etymology
Koimeterion meant a sleeping place or dormitory. Early Christian writers applied it to burial grounds, drawing on the image of death as sleep.
In context
you find that cemetery and you find other family members that are buried there with the same surname
More examples
- Her grandfather is buried in the town cemetery.
- The cemetery gates close at sunset.
- Volunteers clean old gravestones in local cemeteries.
Forms
cemetery · cemeteries
Similar words
- graveyard
- Often refers to a burial ground beside a church.
- burial ground
- A broader term that also covers informal or unmarked burial sites.