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
Despite the cemetery’s promise to fix the head solidly on the base, the picture reveals only a tiny piece of rebar that had been keeping it place.
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David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
The best way to begin your excursion is with a leisurely stroll around the village’s 19th-century cemetery, where The Legend of Sleepy Hollow author Washington Irving is buried.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
In a cemetery shed, the doctors performed more than three thousand autopsies, which revealed that starvation softened the bones and atrophied vital organs.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
In 2024, the university returned a marble male head from Roman times from a cemetery in Thessaloniki.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
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David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
The best way to begin your excursion is with a leisurely stroll around the village’s 19th-century cemetery, where The Legend of Sleepy Hollow author Washington Irving is buried.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
In a cemetery shed, the doctors performed more than three thousand autopsies, which revealed that starvation softened the bones and atrophied vital organs.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
In 2024, the university returned a marble male head from Roman times from a cemetery in Thessaloniki.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cemetery
graveyard
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Aside from paying your respects to these icons on a cemetery tour, visit in the summer for its famous Cinespia screenings, when the graveyard transforms into an open-air cinema that projects films onto a mausoleum wall, surrounded by intricate headstones.—
Sophie-Claire Hoeller,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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Guests can expect to see spooky creatures, a graveyard, a carnival of chaos and five haunted houses.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Cemetery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cemetery. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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