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Cemetery

/ˈsemətri/
A place where people are buried, often a large and organized space or park for burying the dead.

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Examples:

We visited the cemetery to remember our relatives.The cemetery is peaceful with many old trees.

Etymology:

etymology
The word cemetery comes from the Greek word koimeterion, which means sleeping place. It was adopted into Latin as coemeterium and then into Old French cimetiere before entering English in the late Middle Ages.

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