MXa piece of land, usually not belonging to a church, in which dead people are buried 〔通常不属于某个教堂的〕公墓,墓地 → graveyard
Examples from the Corpus
cemetery• A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.• Though it has more plots than most cemeteries, the storylacksdramaticdrive and a truecore.• But the 57 Mature Harappan graves from the R37 cemetery at Harappa suggest otherwise.• And some cemeterysupporters have suggested that the industry itself may be persuaded to bail out the Sleeping Ones at Hollywood Memorial.• All the crew are buried at Stonefall cemetery, alongside many of their fellowcountrymen.• He was caught in the end, trying to bury one of the bodies in the cemetery, in a fresh grave.• For years after the CulturalRevolution, one survivor told SouthernWeekend, no one visited the cemetery where 400 lie buried.• The cemetery, which contains graves of men, women and children, covers about 15,000 squareyards.
Origincemetery
(1300-1400)Old Frenchcimitere, from Late Latincoemeterium, from Greekkoimeterion“sleeping room, burying place”, from koiman“to cause to sleep”