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cemetery
An outdoor burial site with graves marked by gravestones, mausoleums, or other monuments, whether landscaped or not.
A cemetery is a field or other outdoor site for burial of the dead, with the burial sites marked by gravestones, mausoleums, or other monuments. It may be landscaped or not.
The site brings together places of burial and their markers. A particular ornamental landscape treatment is not required.
A funerary chapel can serve ceremonies within or near the burial grounds. The cemetery is the outdoor burial site rather than the chapel building itself.
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