English Explanatory Dictionary

graveyard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
  2. A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
  3. The discard pile, in some trading card games.
  4. A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
  5. A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
  6. Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).

Pronunciation

/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/ En-us-graveyard.ogg

Word forms

graveyard graveyards

Etymology

From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).

Synonyms

boneyard Boot Hill burial ground camposanto cemetery churchyard crypt God's acre gravestead graveyard kirkyard lichyard marble orchard memorial park urupa suicide

Derived words

aircraft graveyard automobile graveyard elephants' graveyard flies' graveyard ghost in the graveyard graveyard chompers graveyard cough graveyard market graveyard-minded graveyard of empires Graveyard of the Atlantic Graveyard of the Pacific graveyard orbit graveyard poet graveyard poetry graveyard shift graveyard slot graveyard spiral graveyard stew graveyard test graveyard tour graveyard watch graveyardy whistle past the graveyard

Translations

Danish: kirkegård Dutch: kerkhof Finnish: hautausmaa Greek: νεκροταφείο Russian: кла́дбище Spanish: cementerio
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