English Dictionary

union cemetery

名詞

アメリカ英語 固有名詞的連体用法

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.

日本語の意味

複数の教会や自治体などが共同で所有・運営する墓地。各団体の経済的負担を軽減するために利用され、宗派や宗教に偏らず世俗的な設立がなされる。

The families pooled their resources to maintain the old union cemetery on the hill.

家族たちは丘の上にある古い共同墓地を維持するために資金を出し合った。

意味（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.

Control and management of a union cemetery may be shifted from a union cemetery board to the combined boards of township trustees and municipal legislative authorities by appropriate action at any joint meeting provided for by R.C. 759.34 or R.C. 759.35; a board of township trustees which participates in the control and management of a union cemetery through joint meetings under R.C. 759.35 may contribute financially to the maintenance and operation of the cemetery.

意味（2）

(When capitalized as "Union Cemetery") An instance of such a cemetery, as for example Union Cemetery in Redwood City, California or Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.

意味（3）

(US, when capitalized as "Union cemetery", with "Union" in an attributive proper noun sense) A cemetery principally for the interment of Union soldiers in the American Civil War.

The house [Arlington House] became the headquarters of the Union Army. The cemetery was created in 1864 by Union Quartermaster Gen. Montgomery Meigs. Although born in Georgia, Meigs considered Lee a traitor and vowed to punish him by turning his beloved home into a Union cemetery.

union cemeteries （ plural ）