cemetery

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At $300 apiece there promised to be a tremendous profit in the thing, for our cemetery was a fashionable place to be buried in and the demand for the lots in the new addition promised to be enormous.

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  1. noun A place for burying the dead; a graveyard.

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  • By American standards, the cemetery was an old one. —  grave Surprise
  • In the very center of the cemetery is a mausoleum that used to contain the ashes of the founders of the colony. —  AnalogSFF,May2008
  • In our cemetery is a lonely grave, marked only with the initials and the regimental number of three German soldiers, and with the fatal date, the 13th of October. —  In a Walled Garden
  • "The owner of the property, Kent Burns, knew the cemetery was here, but not the extent of it," Hicks said. —  News for Lynchburg News Advance
  • It's clear from the great majority of older graves that the cemetery was a resting place for Norwegians (maybe some other Scandinavians, too), mostly Protestants. —  Infospigot: The Chronicles
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  1. Middle English cimiterie, from Old French cimitiere, from Medieval Latin cimitērium, from Late Latin coemētērium, from Greek koimētērion, from koimān, to put to sleep; see kei-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also formerly centerie, centry, from Middle English *cemetery, semetory, from OF, cemetiere, French cimetière = Provencal cementeri = Spanish cimenterio = Portuguese cemiterio = Italian cimeterio, from Late Latin cœmeterium, Middle Latin also cemeterium, from Greek κοιμητήριον, a sleeping-room, a sleeping-place, in ecclesiastical writers a cemetery, from κοιμᾶν, put to sleep, pass, fall asleep, from κει\σθαι, lie down, related to L. quics, rest: see quiet.
 

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