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Definition of Cemetery

1. Noun. A tract of land used for burials.

Definition of Cemetery

1. n. A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Definition of Cemetery

1. Noun. A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park. ¹

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Definition of Cemetery

1. a burial ground [n -TERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cemetery

Literary usage of Cemetery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The two bodies were transferred to the city in the ninth century, and the cemetery was lost sight of until De Rossi discovered it in 1858, ..."

2. The count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1846)
"THE cemetery OF P^RE-LA-CHAISE. M. DE BOVILLE had indeed met the funeral procession which conducted Valentine to her last home on earth. ..."

3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"Soldiers' National cemetery Committee. Report of the Select Committee relative ... Green-Wood cemetery. Catalogue of proprietors in the Green-Wocd cemetery, ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1920)
"In the lot except a mere easement or burial right subordinate to the ownership of the cemetery by the corporation; that the spe- _ clal tax bills were ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Pr. 434), ond that a deed of it carries only a right to use it for burial purposes (Buffalo City cemetery v. Buffalo, 46 NY 503). ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"The changes in our cemetery system which have been suggested by Mr Seymour Haden and others have all the one common object of increasing the security of ..."

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