how to pronounce cemetery

/ˈsɛm.ə.tɹi/

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cemetery is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of cemetery in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… all share the same cemetery in rochester …”

meaning of cemetery

A cemetery is a place where the dead are buried.

cemetery frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word cemetery occurs in english on average 7.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.