| 词汇 | cemetery |
| 词源 | cemetery. With all the talk about the euphemisms used by today’s “morticians” it is often forgotten that cemetery is a eu- phemism coined by early Christian writers from the Greek word for dormitory, a place where one sleeps. Cemetery is first recorded in English in 1387, over a century after burial ground (ca. 1250). Graveyard isn’t recorded until the early 19th century. See graveyard ship. |
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