"cemeteryful" meaning in English

See cemeteryful in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: cemeteryfuls [plural]
Etymology: From cemetery + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cemetery|ful|pos=noun}} cemetery + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun}} cemeteryful (plural cemeteryfuls)
  1. (rare, humorous) As much as a cemetery would hold. Tags: humorous, rare

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cemetery",
        "3": "ful",
        "pos": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "cemetery + -ful",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cemetery + -ful.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cemeteryfuls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cemeteryful (plural cemeteryfuls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English nouns suffixed with -ful",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 January 22, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 113:",
          "text": "[Albert:] In my time a whole cemeteryful of constituents could sweep you into office.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Frederick Busch, The Mutual Friend, reprint, published 1994, →ISBN, page 114:",
          "text": "Depend upon it, this place was built by a cemeteryful of old people, who, making a successful rise against death, have carried the place by assault, and, bringing their gravestones with them, have contrived to build the city, in which they are trying to look alive.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "As much as a cemetery would hold."
      ],
      "id": "en-cemeteryful-en-noun-z5j-oEHV",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "cemetery",
          "cemetery"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, humorous) As much as a cemetery would hold."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cemeteryful"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cemetery",
        "3": "ful",
        "pos": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "cemetery + -ful",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cemetery + -ful.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cemeteryfuls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cemeteryful (plural cemeteryfuls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns suffixed with -ful",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 January 22, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 113:",
          "text": "[Albert:] In my time a whole cemeteryful of constituents could sweep you into office.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Frederick Busch, The Mutual Friend, reprint, published 1994, →ISBN, page 114:",
          "text": "Depend upon it, this place was built by a cemeteryful of old people, who, making a successful rise against death, have carried the place by assault, and, bringing their gravestones with them, have contrived to build the city, in which they are trying to look alive.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "As much as a cemetery would hold."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "cemetery",
          "cemetery"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, humorous) As much as a cemetery would hold."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cemeteryful"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cemeteryful meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.