cemetery

nounburial ground

Synonyms for cemetery

noun burial ground

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Old French cimetiere "graveyard" (12c.), from Late Latin coemeterium, from Greek koimeterion "sleeping place, dormitory," from koiman "to put to sleep," keimai "I lie down," from PIE root *kei- "to lie, rest," also "bed, couch," hence secondary sense of "beloved, dear" (cf. Greek keisthai "to lie, lie asleep," Old Church Slavonic semija "family, domestic servants," Lithuanian šeima "domestic servants," Lettish sieva "wife," Old English hiwan "members of a household," higid "measure of land," Latin cunae "a cradle," Sanskrit Sivah "propitious, gracious"). Early Christian writers were the first to use it for "burial ground," though the Greek word also had been anciently used in reference to the sleep of death. An Old English word for "cemetery" was licburg.

Example Sentences forcemetery

Passing the Jewish cemetery, Kate and Harry paused a moment.

Macarius was attacked when in a cemetery, and passed a whole night in defending himself.

Not long since I took occasion to visit the cemetery near this city.

Tip watched her, and she took the road leading to the cemetery.

This we dignified, even in common speech; it was always grandly "the Cemetery."

We don't need to be already thinking of the cemetery, do we?

She was going to have her green corner in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery.

I was told that many of the bodies had been buried in trenches in a corner of the cemetery.

I found it on Cemetery Hill in company with the Amanitopsis.

He was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Joseph, by the side of Moliere.

cemetery

Synonyms for cemetery

More words related to cemetery

boneyard

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