as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
Forest Lawn in Glendale, California, is the memorial park that serves as the final resting place for many of Hollywood's greatest
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Recent Examples of memorial park
Near the hypocenter, where the bomb detonated about 2,000 feet above, is a peace memorial park and museum that includes the iconic atomic dome.
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Mai Nishiyama, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
According to Variety, such statues have a starting price at $95,000, and Yelchin's family was told other local memorial parks wouldn't allow the statue on their grounds.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 June 2025
Yelchin’s family found Hollywood Forever when other local memorial parks wouldn’t allow a life-size bronze figure of the young actor.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 June 2025
The group commissioned a granite monument to Brooklyn’s founding and raised money for brick pavers meant as the centerpiece of a memorial park that has yet to materialize.
—Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
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Mai Nishiyama, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
According to Variety, such statues have a starting price at $95,000, and Yelchin's family was told other local memorial parks wouldn't allow the statue on their grounds.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 June 2025
Yelchin’s family found Hollywood Forever when other local memorial parks wouldn’t allow a life-size bronze figure of the young actor.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 June 2025
The group commissioned a granite monument to Brooklyn’s founding and raised money for brick pavers meant as the centerpiece of a memorial park that has yet to materialize.
—Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for memorial park
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The cemetery is also the final resting place of Bardot's parents and her first husband, filmmaker Roger Vadim, who helmed her breakout film And God Created Woman.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Jan. 2026
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Property taxes pay for more than two dozen types of local improvement and service districts that cover cemeteries, ambulances, pest control, flood prevention, downtown development, fire protection and more.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2026
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On Wednesday, Duff ramped up the anticipation for her new album, teasing a new song about dive bar hookups, inconvenient roommates, and a once-red-hot romance fizzling into the tombs of relationship graveyards.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
7 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement The two graveyards rest on land that was once part of one of over 50 plantations owned by the white Hairston family across several states.—
Jeffrey Bennett,
Time,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Memorial park.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorial%20park. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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