cemetery
nounEtymology
From Middle English cimiterie, from Old French cimitiere, from Medieval Latin cimitērium, from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion), from κοιμάω (koimáō, “I put to sleep”); compare cœmeterium. Displaced Middle English charnel (“mass grave, cemetery”) and Old English līctūn (“cemetery”).
- derived from κοιμητήριον
- derived from coemētērium
- derived from cimitērium
- derived from cimitiere
- inherited from cimiterie
Definitions
A place where the dead are buried
A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
- The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek, and Armenian, with their growth of cypress trees...
- They were probably the work of individual craftsmen working to meet the chieftains' needs. Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here.
- […] the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the dead centre of town’ […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cemetery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cemetery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at cemetery
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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