graveyard
noun
a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
graveyards
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pluralof graveyard.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Until now, however, scientists have lacked a reliable way to determine how the remains of extinct megafauna and other animals accumulated, survived, and changed inside these submerged graveyards.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The subtropical southern Japanese region boasts some of the world's most biodiverse hubs of normally multicoloured coral, but a 2024 marine heatwave created "graveyards" of ghostly pale or sickly brown organisms.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Wall Street’s graveyards are filled with analysts who have insisted that they would.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
The eventual artwork, 25 metres by 25 metres and enclosed by a wall, will be filled with stones from these graveyards.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Villages filled with children and old people, midday meals to break up the workday, churches, graveyards, farmers selling crops, town halls with birth records, death notices.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
