(n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(2) Finally, a postscript offers a parallel between the writings of Charles Dickens and the pauper cemetery.
(3) Pathological changes indicate that the cemetery contained individuals representing two slave occupational groups, house servants and laborers.
(4) The purpose of this paper is to present a Mediaeval skeleton of an approximately 16 year old boy, which was excavated at a Danish cemetery containing ca.
(5) By the afternoon of the day of the Smolensk catastrophe, the candles that were usually found in cemeteries on the margins of town had appeared en masse in public spaces in the heart of Warsaw.
(6) The family climbed in on either side and drove about a half mile up the road to a cemetery.
(7) Numerous authors have studied human cemetery remains with an eye toward identifying different socially stratified ethnic or kinship groups within the same population.
(8) Have you ever been to Arlington cemetery?” Khizr asked, a question that remains unanswered.
(9) Today, the man who famously claimed "I filled a cemetery all by myself".
(10) The cemetery is hidden among the rural woods and hills of Caroline County about 30 miles north of Richmond and contains only 47 graves in all.
(11) At least one neighbor was unaware the cemetery was even there.
(12) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
(13) A spokesman for the Danish Islamic Burial Fund objected to Hussein being buried at a cemetery run by his group.
(14) We made a mass prayers for the ten bodies and then buried them in Martyrs cemetery.
(15) Cemetery remains exposed through vandalism or natural phenomena are frequently brought to the attention of law enforcement agents or medical examiners.
(16) It is not clear if the cemetery's excavation was a warning signal from the guards to the government about a softeneing in its stance towards minorities.
(17) "Some people built tombs to steal archaeology, definitely," said 28-year-old Walid Ibrahim, picnicking on the boundary between the old and new cemeteries.
(18) I've steeled myself to ask her on what ground she wants to be buried, in which cemetery."
(19) Most of us who have lived in Canberra for any time have stood out there amid whipping winds or under a baking sun at the Australian capital's biggest cemetery.
(20) Eighteen pairs of mandible measures were evaluated according to sex on europide skulls coming from south-eastern Hungarian cemeteries of the X-XII., centuries in order to disclose possible measure differences between the left and right side.
Necropolis
Definition:
(n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
(2) In this perspective, the differences observed between the two Roman populations and between the sexes (in Isola Sacra) appear to result from different social habits: the middle class population of Portus habitually used thermal baths, whereas it is probable that thermae were seldom frequented (if at all) by the Lucus Feroniae population represented in the necropolis (mostly composed by slaves or freedmen farm laborers).
(3) The authors describes a case of hypodontia in a male subject aged about 45 years and coming from the medieval necropolis of San Lorenzo of Aversa (Caserta, South Italy), dated to 890-1290 A.D. Hypodontia consists of the absence of a central inferior incisor (probably the left).
(4) To walk at ancient street levels through the necropolis is an exciting experience for those who love to step back in time.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cairo’s City of the Dead, a vast 7th-century necropolis, is thought to accommodate half a million families among its tombs and mausoleums.
(6) Spare a thought for the unknown adult mummified in a Theban necropolis more than 2,500 years go.
(7) The cathedral has been a royal necropolis since the sixth century where 43 kings and 32 queens are interred.
(8) It’s certainly an exceptional county in terms of stone age monuments, such as Queen Maeve’s cairn and the Neolithic necropolis of Carrowkeel.