burial ground
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈbɜːriəl ɡraʊnd/
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cementerio
- But not so long ago, many burial grounds were lively places, with blooming gardens and crowds of people strolling among the headstones.
- sites such as burial grounds
Well, he's staying in a place that's right behind a a Native American burial ground.
- Well, he's staying in a place that's right behind a a Native American burial ground.
- This is an abandoned POW burial ground.
- We then discovered that this facility was about to be constructed on the burial ground of the enslaved Africans.
Examples
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Hence the discovery of a number of burial grounds under the mounds of soil in which the steles were anchored.
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In the nineteenth century, municipal governments saw burial grounds as potential health hazards.
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Ancient burial ground for the royal family.
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It's an old slave burial ground.
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The government of France granted use of this land as a permanent burial ground without charge or taxation.
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Metro operates the cemetery both as a burial ground and as an active greenspace.
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We then discovered that this facility was about to be constructed on the burial ground of the enslaved Africans.
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For 3,000 years Saqqara has been the burial ground for the city of Memphis.
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This burial ground dates back all the way to the Revolutionary War, which was 1775 to 1783.
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The ancient cemetery was designated as a burial ground for the community's deceased.
Synonyms
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2.8
A place where people are buried, often with headstones
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1.8
A place where people are buried after they die
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3.5
An area of land next to a church for burying people
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3.7
A place where people bury their dead
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9.9
A large old cemetery for a city with many tombs
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6.1
An area of land with graves for dead people, like a cemetery
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8.9
A place where dead people are buried
A cemetery like a park with gardens and simple graves for quietly remembering people who have died
A large very old burial place near a city with many tombs
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a piece of land used for burying the dead' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'burial' (the act/rite of interring the dead) with 'ground' (land/soil). This is a straightforward compositional noun-noun modifier pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Burial ground comes from the simple picture of a piece of ground used for burial, a place where people were put into the earth. That's why the words mean a place 'to bury the dead' or a 'cemetery'.