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cemetery en · NOUN

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/ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɹi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈsɛm.əˌtɹi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈsɛm.əˌtɛɹ.i/ (General-American)
/ˈsem.ɘˌtʃɹi/ (New-Zealand)
[ˈsɪm.əˌtɛ.ɪ] African-American Vernacular
/ˈsem.ɘˌtiəɹ.i/ (New-Zealand)
/ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/ (General-American)
[ˈsimətri] (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English cimiterie, from Old French cimitiere, from Medieval Latin cimitērium, from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion), from κοιμάω (koimáō, “I put to sleep”); compare cœmeterium. Displaced Middle English charnel (“mass grave, cemetery”) and Old English līctūn (“cemetery”).

Meanings

A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
- They were probably the work of individual craftsmen working to meet the chieftains' needs. Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here. 1970, Kazimierz Godłowski, “The chronology of the Late Roman and early migration periods in Central Europe”, in Acta scientiarum litterarumque: Schedae archeologicae, Nakładem Uniwersytetu Jagiellonśkiego, page 22:
- […] the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the dead centre of town’ […] 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 26:
- The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek, and Armenian, with their growth of cypress trees... 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
cemeteries	Number=Plur		lexicographic
cementery		alternative	lexicographic
cœmeterium		alternative	lexicographic
cœmetery		alternative	lexicographic
cemetary		alternative	lexicographic

cemetery en · NOUN

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