cemetery

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to a cemetery

   The cemetery gates are merely decorative.

2. 2
   noun

   a tract of land used for burials

   There are many historical figures in the cemetery.

3. 3
   noun

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

   The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek, and Armenian, with their growth of cypress trees...

Etymology

From Middle English cimiterie, from Old French cimitiere, from Medieval Latin cimitērium, from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion), from κοιμάω (koimáō, “I put to sleep”); compare cœmeterium. Displaced Middle English charnel (“mass grave, cemetery”) and Old English līctūn (“cemetery”).