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- Word History
| part of speech: |
noun |
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cemeteries |
| definition: |
a place where the bodies of dead people are put in the ground.
She often brings flowers to the cemetery to put on her grandfather's grave.
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| derivation: |
cemeterial (adj.) |
Cemetery comes from
koimeterion, a Greek word for "sleeping room." The Greek noun comes from the verb
koiman, which means "to put to sleep."