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

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)

 Context examples 

Fierer and Brewer found that graveyards are in fact places of the undead — in the form of microbes on tombstones.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At last I pulled open a heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The researchers took samples from the surfaces of 149 gravestones in the Cementerio de Montjuic in Barcelona, Spain; El Queremal Cementario in Valle de Cauca Province, Colombia; Dory Hill Cemetery in Black Hawk, Colorado; and other graveyards.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)