MEANING
An area set aside for graves and the burial of the dead.
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Words that belong together
- municipal cemetery
- cemetery gate
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The cemetery gate creaked in the evening wind.
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- cemetery
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Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Singular cemetery; plural cemeteries. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: atmosphere, description. Commonness: moderately common.
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