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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a tract of land used for burials;
[syn: cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cemetery n 1: a tract of land used for burials [syn: cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolis]
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

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.