cemetery
cemetery — noun
1. a piece of land, usually outside a town or city, where dead people are buried in
a piece of land, usually outside a town or city, where dead people are buried in the ground, often with a stone marker showing their name
Priya visits the cemetery every spring to put flowers on her grandfather's grave.
collocation: visit a cemetery / put flowers on a grave
The old cemetery next to the river has graves from the nineteenth century.
Workers at the city cemetery dig new graves and take care of the grass.
Tall trees shade the cemetery paths, their leaves rustling above the rows of headstones.
A caretaker locks the cemetery gates each night, leaving the graves silent until morning.
- graveyard
usually smaller and attached to a church; older than a typical cemetery
- churchyard
the burial ground immediately surrounding a church, a type of graveyard
- burial ground
a general and more formal term for any place where people are buried
用法筆記
Frequently used with the prepositions 'in' (inside the grounds) and 'at' (referring to the location for an event or purpose): 'They met in the cemetery' versus 'They met at the cemetery.' The definite article 'the' is almost always required unless the cemetery is named: 'We went to the cemetery' / 'We drove to Greenlawn Cemetery.'