graveyard
Meanings
Plural: graveyards
Noun
- a tract of land used for burials
- A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
- A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
- The discard pile, in some trading card games.
- A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
- A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
- A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
- Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).
Origin / Etymology
From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).
Synonyms
boneyard, Boot Hill, burial ground, burial site, burying ground, camposanto, cemetery, churchyard, crypt, God's acre, gravestead, graveyard, kirkyard, lichyard, marble orchard, memorial park, necropolis, suicide
Scrabble Score: 17
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