as in graveyard
a piece of land used for burying the dead
many of the soldiers who died in the battle are buried in a cemetery nearby
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Recent Examples of cemetery
The site, known as Zvejnieki cemetery, is one of Europe’s largest Stone Age cemeteries.
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Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
And like many other days, their birthday included a trip to the cemetery.
—Jeff Truesdell, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But for the most part, they had been used for relatively small tasks—caring for a pet after its owner died, or funding the management of a piece of property, or a cemetery plot.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
The ancient tombs, along with the area’s previous finds, suggest this part of Manduria served as a structured cemetery-like space in ancient times.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
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Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
And like many other days, their birthday included a trip to the cemetery.
—Jeff Truesdell, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But for the most part, they had been used for relatively small tasks—caring for a pet after its owner died, or funding the management of a piece of property, or a cemetery plot.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
The ancient tombs, along with the area’s previous finds, suggest this part of Manduria served as a structured cemetery-like space in ancient times.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cemetery
graveyard
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Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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But even without European football, and after a decade in which Old Trafford has at times resembled a graveyard for promising careers, the lure of Manchester United — in terms of glamour, prestige and finance — remains powerful.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Cemetery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cemetery. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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