panteon
A common term for a cemetery or graveyard.
They dared us to spend a whole night in the panteón.
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Tag: cementerio
Definitions tagged cementerio in the street dictionary.
PerúBerrera
A local term used in the city of Salamanca to refer to the cemetery (named after the specific site where the city graveyard was built).
Tomorrow marks three years since your uncle died, so we are going to take flowers to the berrera.
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Españacruz
A figure formed by two perpendicular lines, commonly referring to the wooden or stone marker used on a grave.
Dude, help me carry this cruz to the cemetery where my grandpa is.
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Chochueca
A famous local eccentric in the Dominican Republic known for crashing the wakes of total strangers. He demanded the best food and refused to leave until he was given the clothes of the deceased. Chochueca also frequently snuck into the Maximo Gomez cemetery to steal funeral wreaths, resulting in him being kicked out by staff on numerous occasions. He was a well-known street figure from the 1970s onward. (The Maximo Gomez cemetery is a prominent graveyard in Santo Domingo).
Taken from an audio clip by Ramon del Orbe.
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República Dominicanachercha
In the Canary Islands, Spain, a separate section within a Catholic cemetery used for burying people of other religions or those who were not baptized (this term stems from the English word churchyard).
A person of the Muslim religion died and for that reason was buried in the chercha of the graveyard.
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