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GRAVEYARD

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Dictionary entry overview: What does graveyard mean?

• GRAVEYARD (noun)
The noun GRAVEYARD has 1 sense:

1. a tract of land used for burials

Familiarity information: GRAVEYARD used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GRAVEYARD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A tract of land used for burials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

burial ground; burial site; burying ground; cemetery; graveyard; memorial park; necropolis

Hypernyms ("graveyard" is a kind of...):

land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "graveyard"):

potter's field (a cemetery for unknown or indigent people)

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