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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cemetery
    n 1: a tract of land used for burials [syn: cemetery,
         graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying
         ground, memorial park, necropolis]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cemetery \Cem"e*ter*y\, n.; pl. Cemeteries. [L. cemeterium,
   Gr. ? a sleeping chamber, burial place, fr. ? to put to
   sleep.]
   A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a
   graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
CEMETERY, n.  An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies,
poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.  The
inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained
in these Olympian games:

        His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to
    overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives
    they were a rebuke, represented them as vices.  They are here
    commemorated by his family, who shared them.

        In the earth we here prepare a
        Place to lay our little Clara.
                                             Thomas M. and Mary Frazer
        P.S. -- Gabriel will raise her.


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