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

Word History and Origins

Origin of graveyard¹

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

Example Sentences

But however Skynet-1A then got shifted to its present position, it was ultimately allowed to die in an awkward place when really it should have been put in an "orbital graveyard".

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So exactly how much of a bowlers' graveyard was the pitch for the first Test?

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A poem carved on the stone includes the line, "For tyger fierce took life away"; a detail which has regularly drawn curious onlookers to the graveyard.

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The proposals suggest that burial grounds closed during the Victorian era should be reopened, "allowing people to be buried closer to home, or in a graveyard that holds special meaning to them".

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The landscape on the way to the fire is like a graveyard of trees, collapsed and blackened in their entirety.

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Related Words

• burial ground
• cemetery