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Cemetery vs Gravesite - What's the difference?

cemetery | gravesite |

As nouns the difference between cemetery and gravesite

is that cemetery is a place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park while gravesite is the location of a grave.

cemetery

English

(wikipedia cemetery)

Alternative forms

* (history) * (archaic)

Noun

(cemeteries)
  • A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.

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    * See also

    See also

    * catacomb * churchyard * charnel house * columbarium * crypt * graveyard * mausoleum * morgue * mortuary * necropolis * ossuary * reliquary * sepulchre * tombstone * tumulus

    gravesite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The location of a grave
  • A grave.

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