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 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 The parties’ local branches instead proposed that future Holocaust commemorations should be kept at the town’s memorial site at its northern cemetery, German media report. — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026 Cibele and Maria Elisabete were buried together in a joint ceremony at a local cemetery, per the outlets. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 26 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 10 Oct. 2026.

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