Thesaurus:cemetery

Thesaurus

cemetery

English

Noun

Sense: place where the dead are buried

Synonyms

• boneyard (informal)
• Boot Hill (chiefly US, informal)
• burial ground
• camposanto
• cemetery
• churchyard
• crypt
• God's acre (poetic)
• gravestead
• graveyard
• kirkyard (chiefly Scotland)
• lichyard (literary)
• marble orchard (slang)
• memorial park (US)

Hyponyms

• catacomb
• necropolis
• potter's field
• war cemetery

Meronyms

• burial chamber
• columbarium
• grave
• mausoleum
• sepulchre
• tomb
• vault
•   —
• tombstone
• headstone
• gravestone
• footstone
•   —
• coffin
• ossuary
• sarcophagus
• urn

Various

• cenotaph
• mortuary

See also

• Thesaurus:death
• Thesaurus:corpse
• Thesaurus:interment

Further reading

• “interment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “tomb” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.