graveyard
[greyv-yahrd]
- a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
- Informal. graveyard shift.
- a place in which obsolete or derelict objects are kept: an automobile graveyard.
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Origin of graveyard
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Contemporary Examples
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.
Full Text of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union AddressJanuary 29, 2014
Historical Examples
And he stood there lookin', and he says to me: 'No, Katy, that is a graveyard.'
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
On walks along the waterfront he would treat it all like a graveyard.
The HarborErnest Poole
So you stop away from school, and I find you in the graveyard!
Abbe Mouret's TransgressionEmile Zola
But he rather liked to visit the graveyard on Sunday afternoons.
Cy Whittaker's PlaceJoseph C. Lincoln
Kendrick, I wasn't so far off when I talked about that graveyard trip, eh?
Fair HarborJoseph Crosby Lincoln
graveyard
- a place for graves; a burial ground, esp a small one or one in a churchyard
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