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noun, masculine

cimetière

/sim.tjɛʁ/

noun, masculine/sim.tjɛʁ/plural: cimetières

cemetery, graveyard

Et il repose maintenant près de ses compagnons, dans ce cimetière de corail?And now he rests beside his companions in that coral cemetery?

Synonyms: cime, cimetoche

Related: cime, cimetoche

From Old French cimitiere, a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion, “sleeping chamber”).