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cœmetery

cœmetery is the archaic spelling of cemetery.

Meaning of cemetery

Noun

cemetery (plural cemeteries)

  1. A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
    • The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek, and Armenian, with their growth of cypress trees...1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC

Forms of cœmetery

pluralcœmeteries

Questions about cœmetery

What is cœmetery the archaic spelling of?
Cœmetery is the archaic spelling of cemetery.

Words near cœmetery in the dictionary

  1. cœlus
  2. cœmeteria
  3. cœmeterial
  4. cœmeteries
  5. cœmeterium
  6. cœmetery
  7. cœn-
  8. cœnenchyma
  9. cœnenchymal
  10. cœnenchymatous
  11. cœnenchyme

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cœmetery (page history and authors); cemetery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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