CEMETERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cemetery mean? 

• CEMETERY (noun)
  The noun CEMETERY has 1 sense:

1. a tract of land used for burials

  Familiarity information: CEMETERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEMETERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tract of land used for burials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

burial ground; burial site; burying ground; cemetery; graveyard; memorial park; necropolis

Hypernyms ("cemetery" is a kind of...):

land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cemetery"):

potter's field (a cemetery for unknown or indigent people)

 Context examples 

And there's the cetemery—cemetery, he must have meant.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As night approached I found myself at the entrance of the cemetery where William, Elizabeth, and my father reposed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Thought cemeteries were only for the dead?

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery where noblemen and top government officials are buried.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Megalithic necropolises of Panoría and El Barranquete are cemeteries characterised by tombs built out of large stone slabs or masonry walls.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Our ashes, at a future period, will probably be found commingled in the cemetery attached to a venerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer has acquired a reputation, shall I say from China to Peru?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and, a little later, four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsby's station wagon, all wet to the skin.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)