Synonyms for cemetery
ˈsɛm ɪˌtɛr iceme·te·ry

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1. cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolisnoun

   a tract of land used for burials

   Synonyms:
   necropolis, graveyard, burying ground, burial site, burial ground, memorial park

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1. cemeterynoun

   Synonyms:
   graveyard, burying-ground, burial-ground, church-yard, necropolis

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1. cemeterynoun

   Synonyms:
   necropolis, god's acre, graveyard, mortuary

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1. List of paraphrases for "cemetery":

   graveyard, cemeteries, graves, tomb, grave, burial, gravesite, tombs, crematorium

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1. Henry Ward Beecher:

   Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

2. Nick Shelton:

   Flags, flowers and letters alike lie near the remains of Wayne Wilson at the conclusion of the memorial service at the Silverbrook Cemetery in Niles, Mich., Niles Wednesday, July 17, 2019. ( Emil Lippe/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP) Mourners came from several states away to honor him. It said on Facebook he didnt have any family. He does have family, Ohio resident Kenneth Creechtold WNDU-TV. Everybody that stepped foot in Vietnam is a brother. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP In brief remarks, Niles Mayor Nick Shelton thankedWilson and others like Niles Mayor Nick Shelton thankedWilson. General George S. Patton Jr. said it best : It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived, thank God for Wayne Wilson and thank you all for being a part of his legacy.

3. Warren Claybar:

   That also hit us hard with the evacuation of our cemetery staff, we are slowly starting to resume services again.

4. Betty White:

   Gustav Lungfishgot sick from something mysterious and he nearly died. Well he did die in fact, then at the cemetery, Beatrice Lungfish, his wife, kept screaming, ‘He’s alive, he's alive, I can hear him from the grave.'.

5. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum:

   Our work continues to find the graves of our fellow Tulsans who went missing during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, we begin a test excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery to determine what is causing an underground anomaly found by geophysical scanning conducted earlier this year, because the scan is consistent with a mass grave, a team of some of the foremost researchers in the nation have assembled in Tulsa to assess both the presence and the condition of any human remains at the site in question.