"Graveyard" vs "cemetery"

[nq:1]All graveyards are cemeteries, and vice versa, correct?[/nq]
In my own usage, they are.
Now that you've brought up the subject (thank you), I'd be curious to know how many people in aue use the term "graveyard." I think it's sort of been replaced by "cemetery" over the years.

Also where do cemetery-sayers live as opposed to graveyard-goers? And what age groups say each? (1)

[nq:1]All graveyards are cemeteries, and vice versa, correct?[/nq]
I don't think so, speaking from the AmE persuasion. I think of a cemetery as having a kind of official status that does not necessarily apply to a simple graveyard.
AHD3 doesn't necessarily agree with me:
"CEMETERY A place for burying the dead; a graveyard."

NODE, however, seems to suggest the two are not
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[nq:2]All graveyards are cemeteries, and vice versa, correct?[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think so, speaking from the AmE persuasion. I think of a cemetery as having a kind of official ... a grave or graves. That criterion alone is not sufficient to make me inclined to call it a cemetery. [/nq]
Also, unlike graveyards, many cemeteries have names. "Pere Lachaise Graveyard" doesn't sound right. Not e

[nq:1]All graveyards are cemeteries, and vice versa, correct?[/nq]
Depends on the context. In general, yes. However, you might call a place where a few bodies are buried a "graveyard" and reserve the term "cemetery" for a place where many bodies are buried. If you come across a family burying place in an isolated part of the country, you'd be apt to call that a graveyard.
At one time, in t

[nq:1]At one time, in the US, people could be buried on private property and small family graveyards existed. Now we have rules and regulations and people are buried in cemeteries.[/nq]
But there are still a lot of small family graveyards around. There are two near us, but I don't know if the people living next to them are actually "the family."
Maria Conlon, Southeast Michigan, USA.
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[nq:2]At one time, in the US, people could be buried ... have rules and regulations and people are buried in cemeteries.[/nq]
[nq:1]But there are still a lot of small family graveyards around. There are two near us, but I don't know if the people living next to them are actually "the family."[/nq]
We have Indian mounds in Florida. That doesn't mean that Indians - even if sufficiently dead

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[nq:1]All graveyards are cemeteries, and vice versa, correct?[/nq]
A graveyard is where dead people (or, perhaps, animals) are buried. This includes places like my father's vegetable garden, which is fertilised with the bones of a variety of family pets. It also includes mass graves - including those not yet discovered - created when some dictator or army went on

[nq:2]All graveyards are cemeteries, and vice versa, correct?[/nq]
[nq:1]Depends on the context. In general, yes. However, you might call a place where a few bodies are buried a ... across a family burying place in an isolated part of the country, you'd be apt to call that a graveyard.[/nq]
In addition, can't we say all cemeteries are run by organizations, whereas some graveyards are priva

[nq:2]But there are still a lot of small family graveyards ... the people living next to them are actually "the family."[/nq]
[nq:1]We have Indian mounds in Florida. That doesn't mean that Indians - even if sufficiently dead - can be buried in them now.[/nq]
If not sufficiently dead, would John W have said they're not sufficiently good?

Charles Riggs
- Primarily northeast US u

[nq:1]All graveyards are cemeteries, and vice versa, correct?[/nq]
I doubt if I could support this with references so I'm not going to try. But a cemetery is a stand-alone place of burial and a graveyard is an area in church grounds where people are buried.

John Dean
Oxford