(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:24:33

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.

 

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