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ˈgreɪvˌyɑrdgrave·yard

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolisnoun

    a tract of land used for burials

Wiktionary

  1. graveyardnoun

    A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

  2. graveyardnoun

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

Wikipedia

  1. Graveyard

    Graveyard is a song by American singer Halsey. It was released on September 13, 2019 through Capitol Records as the second single for her upcoming third studio album, Manic. As of January 2020 the song has over 155 million streams on Spotify.

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  1. graveyard

    A graveyard is a plot of land, often located next to a church or within a community, where bodies or cremated remains of deceased individuals are buried as a respect or tradition of final disposition. It is typically marked with headstones or grave markers, indicating the names, birth dates, and death dates of the deceased. It is maintained as a solemn and respectful area for mourning, remembrance, and visitation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Graveyardnoun

    a yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery

Wikidata

  1. Graveyard

    A graveyard is any place set aside for long-term burial of the dead, with or without monuments such as headstones. In countries with a Christian tradition it is usually located near and administered by a church. From the early 19th century, new burying grounds were frequently founded as cemeteries, which are burying grounds that are separate from a church or parish.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of GRAVEYARD in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of GRAVEYARD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of GRAVEYARD in a Sentence

  1. Suhail Shaheen:

    Afghanistan is the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan is a swamp, the more you move, the more you bog down.

  2. Duria Taqialdin:

    At the start we struggled, firstly with acceptance of the idea (of women's football), and then with the fact that we couldn't even find a pitch to train on, the union gave us a space, not even really a pitch, but we cleaned it up and made it into one. We named it the graveyard, because anyone who came to play us there would lose.

  3. Andrew Adeleke:

    The church is not supposed to be a graveyard, it is supposed to be a temple of celebration and worship and the beauty is to be able to express our love to God, even when things are not perfect in our lives.

  4. Erich Fromm:

    The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

  5. Mark Leibovich:

    One of my peeves is that the press always says, 'Oh, well, the voters are just frustrated and angry.' And they just use those stupid graveyard words over and over again. I mean, what we're talking about here in the Republican Party is, I would say ... racism, gullibility. I mean, words that are less flattering than frustrating and angry.

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