Cemetery

//ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɹi//

Synonyms for "cemetery" (19 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Noun(4 words)

burial ground graveyard memorial park boneyard

Strong matches (6)

Noun(5 words)

boot hill burial site burying ground camposanto churchyard

burial ground

Related words (9)

Noun(8 words)

crypt god's acre gravestead kirkyard lichyard marble orchard necropolis urupa

graveyard

Related word relations

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12 relation types

More general

2 entries

land site site

More specific

4 entries

catacomb necropolis potter's field war cemetery

Synonyms

2 entries

burial ground graveyard

Related terms

24 entries

barrow cairn catacomb cenotaph charnel charnel house churchyard columbarium corpse croft crypt deadhouse death graveyard interment mausoleum

Showing 16 of 24 words.

at location

7 entries

churchyard cities city country field most cities populated area

derived

11 entries

car cemetery cemeterial cemeterian cemetery gun cemetery vote cemetery voting cemeteryful cemeterylike pet cemetery union cemetery war cemetery

etymologically related_to

1 entries

cœmeterium

has property

1 entries

hallowed ground

is a

6 entries

place to go to meditate place to go to remember place to go to think quiet peaceful place sad place site

meronym

29 entries

burial chamber casket cist coffin columbarium dargah dolmen footstone grave gravestone headstone kist kistvaen kofun kurgan lair

Showing 16 of 29 words.

related to

18 entries

buried catacomb charnel house churchyard columbarium crypt dead graveyard mausoleum memorial park morgue mortuary necropolis ossuary reliquary sepulchre

Showing 16 of 18 words.

used for

16 entries

bury corpse bury loved ones bury people who dead burying cadavers of dead people burying dead collect data on dead ancestors dead bodies placing tombstones remember dead rememberance of mortality remembering remembering dead people reminding of dead store dead people storing old bones visiting dead people

Sample sentences

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I buried my dog at the pet cemetery.

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J.F. Kennedy was buried in Arlington Cemetery.

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I used to walk in the cemetery in my youth.

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This cemetery even has its own site, and there is a page “News” on it! Can you fancy news from the graveyard?!

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Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.

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