Graveyard Meaning
/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA tract of land in which the dead are buried.
nounA final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
Sentence Examples
Working so long on the graveyard shift made his health suffer badly.
He was buried in this graveyard.
They buried him in the graveyard by the church.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The spooky ____ was filled with old tombs and crumbling headstones.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old church is surrounded by a small ____ where many of the town's founding families are buried.
Word Origin & History
From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"They're all out on this southbound odyssey / And the train pulls out of Kankakee / Rolls past the houses, farms, and fields / Passing towns that have no name / And freight yards full of old black men / And the graveyards of rusted automobiles."
— 1971, Steve Goodman, “City of New Orleans”, in Steve Goodman:
"Certain cards place other cards here because such cards might have abilities deemed too strong if they sent them to the graveyard instead."
— 2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, →ISBN, page 49:
"If you want to be tricky, though, Rapid Decay can be a flying elbow drop out of nowhere for a surprise win against graveyard manipulation decks; they will always see a Beetles coming, remember."
— 2006, Michael J. Flores, Deckade: 10 Years of Decks, Thoughts, and Theory!, →ISBN, page 235:
"When a player does discard or use a card or when a creature also died or a spell gets destroyed, that card gets placed into the player's graveyard."
— 2015, Kinetik Gaming, Magic the Gathering Game Guide (Unofficial), →ISBN:
"Her husband, of course, came dressed as Herman Melville.) She's a veteran of these marathons, and warned me about the forthcoming graveyard stretch—when Moby-Dick melds with the altered brain chemistry of sleep deprivation."
— 2024 January 14, Luke Winkie, “A Whale of a Time”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2024:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The spooky ____ was filled with old tombs and crumbling headstones.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old church is surrounded by a small ____ where many of the town's founding families are buried.