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grave·yard

 (grāv′yärd′)
n.
1. A burial ground; a cemetery.
2. A place where worn-out or obsolete objects are kept: an automobile graveyard.
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graveyard

(ˈɡreɪvˌjɑːd)
n
(Ecclesiastical Terms) a place for graves; a burial ground, esp a small one or one in a churchyard
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grave•yard

(ˈgreɪvˌyɑrd)

n.
2. a place in which obsolete or derelict objects are kept: an automobile graveyard.
[1765–75]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.graveyard - a tract of land used for burialsgraveyard - a tract of land used for burials  
potter's field - a cemetery for unknown or indigent people
land site, site - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
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graveyard

noun cemetery, churchyard, burial ground, charnel house, necropolis, boneyard (informal), God's acre (literary) They made their way to the graveyard to pay their respects to the dead.
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Translations
مَدْفَنمَقْبَرَه
hřbitov
kirkegårdbegravelsesplads
hautausmaa
groblje
kirkjugarîur, grafreitur
墓地
묘지
pokopališče
kyrkogård
สุสาน
nghĩa trang

graveyard

[ˈgreɪvjɑːd]
A. Ncementerio m, camposanto m
B. CPD graveyard shift N (esp US) → turno m de noche, turno m nocturno
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graveyard

[ˈgreɪvjɑːrd] ncimetière mgraveyard shift n (US)équipe f de nuit
to work the graveyard shift → faire partie de l'équipe de nuit
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graveyard

[ˈgreɪvˌjɑːd] ncimitero
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grave1

(greiv) noun
a plot of ground, or the hole dug in it, in which a dead person is buried. He laid flowers on the grave.
ˈgravedigger noun
a person whose job is digging graves.
ˈgravestone noun
a stone placed at a grave on which the dead person's name etc is written.
ˈgraveyard noun
a place where the dead are buried.
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graveyard

مَدْفَن hřbitov kirkegård Friedhof νεκροταφείο cementerio hautausmaa cimetière groblje cimitero 墓地 묘지 kerkhof gravlund cmentarzysko cemitério кладбище kyrkogård สุสาน mezarlık nghĩa trang 墓地
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

graveyard

n. cementerio, camposanto.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
Religious services were once held in it--when it was white, and there is a graveyard that would delight a poet.
Here is the graveyard. Are you frightened to pass it, Bev?"
Bushy and grandmother were sure that a man who had killed himself could not be buried in a Catholic graveyard. There was a burying-ground over by the Norwegian church, west of Squaw Creek; perhaps the Norwegians would take Mr.
At the end of half an hour they were wading through the tall grass of the graveyard.
"That's a graveyard, and it's proper to muffle the drums and lower the flags as we go by, and we'd better take off our hats, too; it's more respectable, I think."
It was a winding road, and about a hundred paces further on, it turned to the right to the graveyard. In the middle of the graveyard stood a stone church with a green cupola where he used to go to mass two or three times a year with his father and mother, when a service was held in memory of his grandmother, who had long been dead, and whom he had never seen.
John's graveyard, which is just across the street."
`My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.' That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything."
"The old place is all swep' away," Silas said to Dolly Winthrop on the night of his return--"the little graveyard and everything.
"It's Jack Pumpkinhead's private graveyard," replied the Tin Woodman.
The graveyard in Zermatt occupies only about one-eighth of an acre.
But that trick took 'em to the graveyard, and the gold done us a still bigger kindness; for if the excited fools hadn't let go all holts and made that rush to get a look we'd a slept in our cravats to-night -- cravats warranted to WEAR, too -- longer than WE'D need 'em."