cemetery

noun

ˈse-mə-ˌter-ē How to pronounce cemetery (audio)
Definition of cemeterynext
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 An extensive cemetery added to the impression of a flourishing urban center, as did what might have been part of a brewing complex found through selective excavations. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Aemilia had gone to pre-school in Oakland, California, next to the city’s Mountain View Cemetery, and grew up taking daily walks through the cemetery. — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026 Olmsted also designed cemeteries, campuses, and garden-city suburbs. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 The sheriff's office says the cemetery sustained around $50,000 in damage. — Stephen Swanson, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cemetery
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graveyard
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  • Independent orbital tracking showed that these satellites subsequently both raised their orbits by a few hundred kilometers, a move typically associated with disposing of them into graveyard orbits above geostationary space.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The graves of Emma Joyce and her sister and brothers are clustered near one another at Peaceful Valley Cemetery, a hilltop graveyard that belongs to the Followers of Christ, a faith-healing sect with at least four churches in Idaho.
    — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of graveyard

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“Cemetery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cemetery. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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