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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Cemeteries

[L.

cemeterium

, Gr. [GREEK] a sleeping chamber, burial place, fr. [GREEK] to put to sleep.]

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Noun.

A place where the dead bodies of human beings are buried.