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 90-acre, 1849 cemetery is open daily from Monday to Friday and offers several types of walking tours.
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Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
Monster is pretty consistent with the details of the atrocities Gein confessed to, including hanging Bernice’s body up in a shed, shooting Mary Hogan, and grave-robbing from the cemetery.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
Somehow, Randy traveled about 80 miles from Houston and ended up in Beaumont where he was found in a cemetery, KHOU said.
—Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
Updown Eastry is a cemetery associated with the early Anglo-Saxon Kentish elite and part of a royal network.
—Duncan Sayer, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2025
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Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
Monster is pretty consistent with the details of the atrocities Gein confessed to, including hanging Bernice’s body up in a shed, shooting Mary Hogan, and grave-robbing from the cemetery.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
Somehow, Randy traveled about 80 miles from Houston and ended up in Beaumont where he was found in a cemetery, KHOU said.
—Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
Updown Eastry is a cemetery associated with the early Anglo-Saxon Kentish elite and part of a royal network.
—Duncan Sayer, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cemetery
graveyard
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Talk about a smart move; the entertainment graveyard is full of people who made the wrong choices with their money and their brands.—
Essence,
Essence,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Haunted Trail takes visitors outdoors through a path with dense fog and several haunting installations with zombies, a ghoul bus, a graveyard filled with ghosts, chainsaw maniacs and more.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Cemetery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cemetery. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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