Cemetery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cemetery \Cem"e*ter*y\, n.; pl. {Cemeteries}. [L. cemeterium,
     Gr. ? a sleeping chamber, burial place, fr. ? to put to
     sleep.]
     A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a
     graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cemetery
       n : a tract of land used for burials [syn: {graveyard}, {burial
           site}, {burial ground}, {burying ground}, {memorial park},
            {necropolis}]

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  CEMETERY, n.  An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies,
  poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.  The
  inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained
  in these Olympian games:
  
          His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to
      overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives
      they were a rebuke, represented them as vices.  They are here
      commemorated by his family, who shared them.
  
          In the earth we here prepare a
          Place to lay our little Clara.
                                               Thomas M. and Mary Frazer
          P.S. -- Gabriel will raise her.