Cemetery Synonyms

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Synonyms for Cemetery

burial-ground
A cemetery; graveyard
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eternal home
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necropolis
A large cemetery, especially one of elaborate construction in an ancient city.
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tomb
A monument commemorating the dead.
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graveyard
(Figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
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catacomb
An underground, often labyrinthine passageway.
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polyandrium
A polyandrion
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crypt
(Anat.) Any of various recesses, glandular cavities, or follicles in the body
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funerary grounds
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boneyard
A place where refuse, especially discarded cars, accumulates or is kept.
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campo santo
(Southwest) A cemetery
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litten
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city of the dead
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vault
A burial chamber
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memorial-park
(US) A cemetery.
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potter-s-field
A place for the burial of unknown or indigent persons.
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ossuary
A container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead.
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charnel-house
A scene or place of great physical suffering and loss of life:
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last resting place
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burial
The act of burying; esp., the burying of a dead body; interment
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burial site
a tract of land used for burials
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golgotha
(Bible, place, proper) The place where Jesus was crucified; Calvary: Mark 15:22
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sepulcher
The definition of a sepulcher is a small room, usually made of stone, where a dead person is buried.
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mortuary
A place, especially a funeral home, where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation.
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god-s-acre
(Poetic) A Christian place of burial; a churchyard.
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Words Related to Cemetery

grave
A hole in the ground in which to bury a dead body
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Langemark
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cemetry
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barracks
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monument
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Morchies
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chapel
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Ayette
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Miraumont
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fortlet
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cemetary
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Cemetery Sentence Examples

  • If he were in a grave—in a cemetery somewhere—I could go there and put flowers on it.

  • About a kilometre away from the palace was the cemetery.

  • The state fair grounds of 115 acres adjoin the city, and there is also a beautiful cemetery of 220 acres.

  • He was buried in the great Armenian cemetery at Nicomedia, but in the course of 1906 his relics were transferred to Hungary.

  • Of these St Matthias in the south, now represented by a 12th-century building, has a Christian cemetery of the Roman age.

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