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Graveyard

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A burial ground; a cemetery.

n. A place where worn-out or obsolete equipment or objects are kept: an automobile graveyard.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

n. A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A yard for graves; an inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a tract of land used for burials

Word Usage

"The forecast, though, from the Hurricane Center is anywhere from killing this storm in what they call the graveyard of the eastern Caribbean to well into a major hurricane as we get it into the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

site land site

Hyponym

potter's field

Form

Graveyard of the Atlantic graveyard cough graveyard-minded graveyard chompers flies' graveyard

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

cemetery necropolis churchyard burial-ground

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

cemetery churchyard hamlet courtyard monastery