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graveyard

[ greyv-yahrd ]

noun

  1. a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
  2. Informal. graveyard shift.
  3. a place in which obsolete or derelict objects are kept:

    an automobile graveyard.



graveyard

/ ˈɡreɪvˌjɑːd /

noun

  1. a place for graves; a burial ground, esp a small one or one in a churchyard


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Word History and Origins

Origin of graveyard1

First recorded in 1765–75; grave 1 + yard 2

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Example Sentences

Today, a forlorn air hangs over Santa Maria degli Angeli, like a graveyard where ghosts are buried.

By Alex Orlov for Life by DailyBurn If your fridge is a graveyard of expired foods, listen up.

On August 16, 1876, the chapel and its graveyard, Campo Santo, opened.

From whales to ships to unlucky explorers, the Skeleton Coast has become the graveyard of many.

A man took the bus home from the graveyard shift, bone-tired but dreaming big dreams for his son.

In 1763 the chapel was enlarged, and at the same time a little more land was added to the graveyard.

I made a short cut across the graveyard of Saint Francis, or I must have met the escort.

The solitary footfall amid the silence reminds me of the timid haste of one crossing a graveyard at night.

It was the custom to place slaves thus at the feet of their masters, even in the graveyard.

The graveyard of our Parish Church is, we dare say, something which very few people think of.

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