cemetery

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. graveyard, necropolis, burial ground or mound. See interment.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. burial ground, graveyard, memorial park, funerary grounds, churchyard, necropolis, potter's field, catacomb, city of the dead, tomb, ossuary, vault, crypt, charnel house, sepulcher, mortuary, last resting place, God's acre, Golgotha, eternal home, boneyard*; see also grave 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

graveyard, necropolis, memorial grounds, burial ground, churchyard, golgotha, *bone yard, *city of the dead. ''The last resort.''—Anon. ''The country home I need.''—Mark Twain.

WORD FIND

• ashes of cremated body: cremains

• burial place, vault: tomb

• burial site, unit: plot

• empty tomb, marker for one whose remains are elsewhere: cenotaph

• grave robber: ghoul

• gunfighter’s, American West: Boot Hill

• incinerator: crematory

• inscription on gravestone: epitaph

• large cemetery: necropolis

• memorial building, place: shrine

• mound of earth over grave: barrow

• mourning statues: weepers

• pauper’s: Potter’s field

• preparation facility for the dead: mortuary

• RIP: rest in peace

• sarcophagus, elaborately carved: solium

• sculpted representation of the dead on a monument: effigy

• sculptural depiction of the crucifixion: Calvary

• stone: headstone, tombstone, gravestone, monument, memorial

• tomb housing: mausoleum

• underground vaults: catacombs, crypt, cubiculum

• urn or vault for bones: ossuary

• urn vault: cinerarium

• vault: sepulcher

see coffin, funeral, monument