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cemetery
[ sem-i-ter-ee ]
noun
- an area set apart for or containing graves, tombs, or funeral urns, especially one that is not a churchyard; burial ground; graveyard.
cemetery
/ ˈɛɪٰɪ /
noun
- a place where the dead are buried, esp one not attached to a church
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cemetery1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cemetery1
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The BBC Russian Service, in collaboration with independent media outlet Mediazona and a team of volunteers, has processed open source data from Russian cemeteries, military memorials and obituaries.
I watched families bury loved ones in a muddy cemetery and was at a loss to convey the enormity of the moment, set against the panorama of geopolitics.
A medieval cemetery unearthed near Cardiff Airport is continuing to confound archaeologists, as the mysteries surrounding it are multiplying.
Saunders imagines a space in which the devastated father and son might still communicate with the multiple spirits of the cemetery’s dead similarly waiting to be reborn.
Mrs Anderson has now been told by Gloucester City Council, which owns the cemetery, the body will be moved.
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