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Definition of Cemetery
Cemetery

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

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Cemetery Quotations

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson

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

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

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Pope John Paul II

Cemetery Translations

cemetery in Dutch is begraafplaats, kerkhof
cemetery in German is Friedhof
cemetery in Italian is camposanto, cimitero
cemetery in Spanish is cementerio


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