Burial and Cemetery

Burial

Burial noun - A final resting place for a dead person.

Usage example: archaeologically significant artifacts, such as stone tools, have been discovered in Neanderthal burials

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Cemetery and burial are semantically related in burial site topic. In some cases you can use "Cemetery" instead a noun "Burial".

Nearby Word: buried

Cemetery noun - A piece of land used for burying the dead.

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Burial and cemetery are semantically related in burial site topic. You can use "Burial" instead a noun "Cemetery".

full	full burial	full cemetery
specific	specific burial	specific cemetery
private	private burial	private cemetery
military	military burial	military cemetery
Other adjectives: titular, Christian, eponymous.

In the premiere of Boss some workers discover an Indian burial ground while moving a Christian cemetery located on top of it.

Source: Indian Burial Ground
In Boneyard, a gargoyle jokes that the eponymous cemetery is built on the site of an Indian burial ground.

Source: Indian Burial Ground
He even tells her that if she can walk up the cemetery hill where his burial plot is located, she can dance with him on his grave.

Source: Western Animation / King of the Hill

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