Cemetery
['semɪtrɪ] or ['sɛmə'tɛri]
Definition
(n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
Edited by Janet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Graveyard, burying-ground, burial-ground, church-yard, necropolis.
Editor: Solomon
Definition
n. a burying-ground.
Inputed by Elliot
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being in a beautiful and well-kept cemetery, you will have unexpected news of the recovery of one whom you had mourned as dead, and you will have your title good to lands occupied by usurpers. To see an old bramble grown and forgotten cemetery, you will live to see all your loved ones leave you, and you will be left to a stranger's care. For young people to dream of wandering through the silent avenues of the dead foreshows they will meet with tender and loving responses from friends, but will have to meet sorrows that friends are powerless to avert. Brides dreaming of passing a cemetery on their way to the wedding ceremony, will be bereft of their husbands by fatal accidents occurring on journeys. For a mother to carry fresh flowers to a cemetery, indicates she may expect the continued good health of her family. For a young widow to visit a cemetery means she will soon throw aside her weeds for robes of matrimony. If she feels sad and depressed she will have new cares and regrets. Old people dreaming of a cemetery, shows they will soon make other journeys where they will find perfect rest. To see little children gathering flowers and chasing butterflies among the graves, denotes prosperous changes and no graves of any of your friends to weep over. Good health will hold high carnival.
Edited by Juanita
Unserious Contents or Definition
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:
Checker: Max
Unserious Contents or Definition
The one place where princes and paupers, porters and presidents are finally on the dead level.
Editor: Margaret
Examples
- As night approached, I found myself at the entrance of the cemetery where William, Elizabeth, and my father, reposed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The rector emerged, erect as a cane, from his garden, and proceeded in slow march, his hands behind him, down the cemetery. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That night I walked down to the cemetery with him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They showed us a miniature cemetery there--a copy of the first graveyard that was ever in Marseilles, no doubt. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There was one fine cemetery though--the one at Pisa. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The original of this cemetery was dug up in the principal street of the city a few years ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But marble busts all looked like a cemetery. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- My aunt's remains were removed from London, and were buried in the little cemetery attached to the church in her own park. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was buried by Madame Fosco in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- From the east, a band of ravens, old inhabitants of the Turkish cemeteries, came sailing along towards their harvest; the sun disappeared. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Typist: Pearl