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The one neighborhood where everybody's finally quiet.
means A plot of ground set aside for burying the dead.
from From Greek koimeterion, meaning 'sleeping place' or 'dormitory,' from koiman, 'to put to sleep.' The Greeks used it first for actual bedrooms, then early Christian writers borrowed it specifically for burial grounds — a gentle euphemism treating death as rest rather than ending. It passed through Latin coemeterium into Old French and then English, carrying that same soft-pedaled comfort the whole way.
- word root
- literally translates to dormitory in Greek
- older term
- graveyard specifically meant a churchyard burial site
- largest example
- Wadi-us-Salaam in Iraq holds millions of graves
- modern twist
- some cemeteries now double as public parks