graveyard
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈɡreɪvˌjɑrd/
- Across the road from the church was a small graveyard surrounded by a sagging wire fence.
- church and its graveyard
- graveyard and grave site
- became a graveyard
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- So I put my guys in a graveyard.
- So there's a there's a graveyard there where you can you can find his, his tomb.
- I trust that you will rob the graveyard of your treasure.
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- Go walk through a graveyard and see if you don't have some gifts.
- I know other people who feel more at home in Crips, graveyards, or even haunted houses.
- Walk past a graveyard waving your thumbs wildly in the air.
- I mean, it's like a freaking hair graveyard of stuff, OK.
Examples
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We met in a graveyard.
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Your hands were cold that night at the graveyard.
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"There were comments made about buying a graveyard, about this being a waste of resources."
Academic text (2002) -
"You ever see the old graveyard when you were out walking?" he asked.
Fiction book (1993) -
When I see a graveyard and the moon is full and everything is covered with snow.
Academic text (2012) -
The late-nineteenth-century New Jersey estate, across the street from a graveyard, looked bleak in the afternoon light.
Academic text (2004) -
A burial ground before 1847, this graveyard became an Army Post cemetery in the 1860s.
Academic text (2001) -
They dug the grave in the graveyard at Monticello and buried him.
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The old graveyard next to the church is filled with ancient tombstones.
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We walked quietly through the graveyard to pay our respects to the deceased.
Synonyms
317
2.8
A place where people are buried, often with headstones
17
3.9
A place where people are buried, like a cemetery
12
3.7
A place where people bury their dead
10
3.5
An area of land next to a church for burying people
5
8.9
A place where dead people are buried
3
3.5
A cemetery like a park with gardens and simple graves for quietly remembering people who have died
1
6.1
An area of land with graves for dead people, like a cemetery
Compounds
- Jargon
1
7.4
A late-night work shift from midnight to early morning on ships or in factories
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Etymology
Graveyard is made of two simple words: grave meaning 'a hole where a dead person is buried' and yard meaning 'an enclosed area', like the 'yard' in backyard. So a graveyard is literally an enclosed place for graves, which is why it names the land where people are buried.