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. Tom Acquaviva:

   We come here every year. We live in New Jersey. The crowds keep getting less, but my wife and I, as long as we're breathing, we'll be here, no remains were ever found, so basically this is his cemetery.

2. Salah Abdeslam:

   We prefer to see Salah in prison than in a cemetery.

3. Malcolm X:

   Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

4. Louis Post-Dispatch , Love:

   Anyone, regardless of age, gender or race that would desecrate or vandalize an object of remembrance in a cemetery is a low life that has no respect for memorials that have been placed by loved ones or people that want to honor an individual.

5. Kerri Kasem:

   This morning my family and I learned that my Dad's abusive wife Jean Thompson Kasem and their daughter Liberty conned a cemetery in Norway into burying my Dad there, even with ALL the letters ... from my father's friends and family stating that he wanted to be buried in the UNITED STATES, the country in which he was born and raised, his wishes were, once again, ignored by his unfaithful wife.