Word Type

Noun

The word "cemetery" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

churchyard cities city country field most cities populated area

Derived Terms

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

Etymologically Related To

cœmeterium

Has Property

hallowed ground

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

land site site

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

catacomb necropolis potter's field war cemetery

Type Of (IsA)

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

Parts (Meronyms)

burial chamber casket cist coffin columbarium dargah dolmen footstone grave gravestone headstone kist kistvaen kofun kurgan lair martyrium mausoleum mazar ohel ossuary qubba sarcophagus sepulchre tomb tombstone turbeh urn vault

Related Terms

barrow cairn catacomb cenotaph charnel charnel house churchyard columbarium corpse croft crypt deadhouse death graveyard interment mausoleum morgue mortuary necropolis ossuary reliquary sepulchre tombstone tumulus

Related Terms

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

Synonym Network

burial ground graveyard

Used For

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

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.