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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cemetery n : a tract of land used for burials [syn: {graveyard}, {burial site}, {burial ground}, {burying ground}, {necropolis}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: 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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