cemetery

cemetery
A place or area set apart, either by governmental authority or private enterprise, for the interment of the dead. 14 Am J2d Cem § 1. The term is used interchangeably with "graveyard", "burial ground", and "place of burial". Anno: 50 ALR2d 907. It includes not only lots for depositing the bodies of the dead, but also avenues, walks, and grounds for shrubbery and ornamental purposes. The controlling circumstance in the creation of a cemetery is not the burial of the dead, but the act of setting the ground apart for burial and distinguishing it from the surrounding territory as a place of bur ial. Villa Park v Wanderer's Rest Cemetery Co. 316 Ill 226, 147 NE 104.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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  • Cemetery — Cem e*ter*y, n.; pl. {Cemeteries}. [L. cemeterium, Gr. ? a sleeping chamber, burial place, fr. ? to put to sleep.] A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cemetery — late 14c., from O.Fr. cimetiere graveyard (12c.), from L.L. coemeterium, from Gk. koimeterion sleeping place, dormitory, from koimao to put to sleep, keimai I lie down, from PIE root *kei to lie, rest (Cf. Goth haims village, O.E. ham …   Etymology dictionary

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  • CEMETERY — In Hebrew a cemetery is variously termed as bet kevarot ( place of the sepulchers ; Neh. 2:3, Sanh. 6:5); bet olam ( house of eternity ; see Eccles. 12:5) or its Aramaic form bet almin (Eccles. R. 10:9, Targ. Isa. 40:11, TJ, MK 80b); bet mo ed le …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • cemetery — n. at, in a cemetery (she works at/in the cemetery; to be buried in a cemetery) * * * in a cemetery (she works at/in the cemetery; to be buried in a cemetery) at …   Combinatory dictionary

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  • cemetery — /sem i ter ee/, n., pl. cemeteries. an area set apart for or containing graves, tombs, or funeral urns, esp. one that is not a churchyard; burial ground; graveyard. [1375 1425; late ME < LL coemeterium < Gk koimetérion a sleeping place, equiv. to …   Universalium

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