graveyard

Noun

Meaning

A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cemetery memorial park necropolis burial ground burial site churchyard burying ground grave field sepulchre golgotha grave crypt catacomb tomb boneyard
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Hypernyms

site land site

Hyponyms

potter's field

Phrases with the word

Graveyard of Empires flies' graveyard elephants' graveyard Graveyard of the Atlantic human graveyard graveyard chompers

Examples

History is a graveyard of aristocracies. Vilfredo Pareto

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. Robert H. Jackson

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure. Nicholas Sparks

A house without children is a graveyard. Hindi Proverb

A young doctor means a new graveyard. German Proverb

A young doctor makes a full graveyard. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Gravettian graveward gravewards graveyard chompers graveyard cough graveyard market