Meaning

3 senses
  1. A cemetery shared by more than one church congregation or municipality, usually to lighten the financial burden (cost per congregation or municipality) and usually nondenominational/nonsectarian.

  2. An instance of such a cemetery, as for example Union Cemetery in Redwood City, California or Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.

  3. (US)A cemetery principally for the interment of Union soldiers in the American Civil War.

Forms

plural: union cemeteries
Singularunion cemetery
Pluralunion cemeteries

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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