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Definition: Graveyard |
GraveyardNoun1. A tract of land used for burials. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "graveyard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Nuclear Energy & Physics | A site reserved for dumping undesirable radioactive objects, with the appropriate protection. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New YorkA cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area) to which dead bodies are brought (usually with hearses) and buried. A cemetery is normally used for human burials but in recent times special cemeteries have been created for the bodies of such animals as dogs, cats and horses.
A cemetery is a place where the ceremonials of death are observed, with different rites and practices across cultures and religions. It is usually a respected area. It often includes churches, other religious buildings or a crematorium for the burning of the dead. In a crematorium the body of the deceased is reduced to ashes, which are then either scattered across the ground or kept in a casket by the relatives.
The violation of the graves or buildings is usually considered a very serious crime and punishments are often severe.
Cemeteries in ancient ages
Many places have been found where ancient people buried their dead. These places could be an organised necropolis or they could be simple areas with highly symbolic elements around (like the Tomb of Giants in Sardinia). The Egyptian pyramids were tombs.
Cemeteries for pets
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Cemeteries and superstition
In many countries, cemeteries are objects of superstition and legend; they are sometimes used (usually at night-time) for black magic ceremonies or similar clandestine happenings. In Haiti the traditional belief regarding zombies as practiced under Voudun religion is connected with burial rituals. It is believed that the zombified individual is buried alive in a coffin in a shallow grave after being given a dosage of tetrodotoxin from the puffer fish to slow his heart so he appears dead even to medical practitioners. After all the burial ceremonies are completed the zombie victim is then dug up and taken into servitude, usually as a punishment for some crime he committed. Some Haitians deny that these practices exist and that these kinds of voodoo practices are pure superstition.
Elephants' cemeteries
Elder elephants instinctively leave their group when they reach a certain age, and direct themselves toward a special area. They will die there alone, far from the group.
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See also: List of famous cemeteries, tomb, Cadaver tomb, American veteran cemetery, Cremation
- Comprehensive London Cemetery Project: 102 cemeteries with high quality photos.
A cemetery in rural Spain, with marble headstones.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cemetery."
Synonyms: GraveyardSynonyms: burial ground (n), burial site (n), burying ground (n), cemetery (n), memorial park (n), necropolis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Graveyard |
| English words defined with "graveyard": desecrate ♦ outrage ♦ profane ♦ violate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "graveyard": BODY, Bulky Waste ♦ Grave ♦ Nominal Semidestructor. (references) |
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Screenplays | But the world was a tomb to me, a graveyard of broken statues, and each of those statues resembled her face (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) You'll find more cheer in a graveyard. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) You just don't sneak up on people in a graveyard. You make noise when you walk, you stomp, or yodel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) The graveyard is out there (Plan 9 from Outer Space; writing credit: Edward D. Wood, Jr.) This place is as empty as a graveyard on Halloween (Inspector Gadget; writing credit: Nezihe Araz) | |
Clever | Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Graveyard Train (1970) The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II (1988) Graveyard Shift (1987) Ghost Stories: Graveyard Thriller (1986) The Graveyard (1984) | |
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 | Currents carry many dead things to Punuk Island making it the graveyard of the Bering Sea. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The ribs of a once mighty ship bare on the "Graveyard of the Atlantic.". Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The Russian Orthodox graveyard at Unalaska. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Deceased fighter pilots from the former Soviet Union are buried in this graveyard near Mari Air Base, Estonia. Tail fins from the pilots' aircraft were used to make the tombstones for their graves. (P.; photo by Senior Master Sgt. Terry Porch).. |
 | An old graveyard located at Miner's Delight, South Pass, Wyoming. Credit: Unknown. |  | Above the snow covered mounds of the old Moravian graveyard, there rises on the stilled air a choral of tender memory. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Aletha was not afraid of the old graveyard. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Wreck arrives at automobile graveyard in North Arlington, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Trinity Church and graveyard, viewed from rear. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Petersburg, Va. Blandford Church and graveyard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Country Graveyard Saggart Dubl" by James Moore Commentary: "Sunny Saturday in a graveyard looking at the stones." | "Elephant Graveyard 2" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "In an unfinished and abandoned themepark in rural china the local farmers reclaimed the land. Vegetables were grown in the cement and fibreglass replicas of Europes famous holiday destinations. life sized fibre glass elephants were pushed over and made i" |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne | Death possesses a great deal of real estate, namely the graveyard in every town. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the neighbourhood of a graveyard, a pick and spade are two passports |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And they would carry the coffin out of the chapel slowly and he would be buried in the little graveyard of the community off the main avenue of limes |
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Civil Liberties | India | The minority community wanted to use the land, which was under the supervision of Muslim religious authorities, as a graveyard. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BODY-:SNATCHER:, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena. "One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall. "While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink! "Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade." Bettel K. Jhones |
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| "Graveyard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.74% of the time. "Graveyard" is used about 381 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.74% | 380 | 14,447 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 381 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "graveyard": auto graveyard ♦ graveyard shift ♦ graveyard watch. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "graveyard": the-graveyard. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "graveyard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | begraafplek (cemetery, God's, God's acre), begraafplaas (cemetery, God's, God's acre). (various references) | |
Albanian | varrezë (burial ground, burial place, cemetery, churchyard, necropolis). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقبرة (burial ground, cemetery), مدفن (cemetery, vault), قرافة, جبانة (cemetery, cowardice, pusillanimity, sepulchre, timidity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гробище за коли, гробище (cemetery). (various references) | |
Catalan | cementiri (cemetery, God's acre). (various references) | |
Chinese | 坟园. (various references) | |
Czech | hřbitov (burial ground, cemetery, churchyard). (various references) | |
Danish | kirkegård (cemetery, God's acre). (various references) | |
Dutch | begraafplaats (cemetery, God's acre), kerkhof (cemetery, God's acre). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tombejo (cemetery). (various references) | |
Farsi | قبرستان (Cemetery). (various references) | |
Finnish | kalmisto, jätteiden hautauspaikka (burial ground, radioactive cemetery), hautauspaikka (burial ground, radioactive cemetery). (various references) | |
French | cimetière. (various references) | |
Frisian | tsjerkhôf (cemetery, God's acre). (various references) | |
German | kirchhof (cemetery, churchyard, God's acre), friedhof (cementery, cemetery, churchyard, God's acre, memorial park). (various references) | |
Greek | ραδιενεργό νεκροταφείο (burial ground, radioactive cemetery), νεκροταφείο (cemetery, churchyard, grave yard, necropolis). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אחוזת קבר (family grave), בית מועד לכל חי (cemetery), בית קברות (cemetery, necropolis), בית עלמין (cemetery). (various references) | |
Hungarian | temető (cemetery, churchyard, god's acre, hallowed ground, necropolis), sírkert. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pekuburan (cemetery). (various references) | |
Irish | reilig (cemetery, God's acre), cill (cell, cemetery, God's acre). (various references) | |
Italian | cimitero (cemetery, churchyard, God's acre), camposanto (cementery, cemetery, churchyard, God's acre). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 埋葬地 (burial place, cemetery), 墓地 (cemetery), 墓地 (cemetery), 墓所 , 墓場 (cemetery). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まいそうち (burial place, cemetery), ぼしょ, ぼち (cemetery), はかしょ, はかば (cemetery), はかどころ, はかち (cemetery). (various references) | |
Korean | 묘소. (various references) | |
Manx | ruillick [f] (burial-ground, cemetery, churchyard), ruillick (burial-ground, cemetery, churchyard). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kirkegård (cemetery, God's acre). (various references) | |
Papiamen | graf (cemetery, God's acre), santana (cemetery, God's acre). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aveyardgray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cemitério (burial ground, cemetery, god's acre, necropolis). (various references) | |
Romanian | cimitir (burial ground, cemetery, churchyard, god's acre). (various references) | |
Russian | кладбище (burial-ground, cemetery, churchyard, god's acre, God's-acre). (various references) | |
Scottish | cladh (churchyard, spawn). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | groblje (cemetery, churchyard, god's acre, necropolis). (various references) | |
Spanish | cementerio (burial ground, cemetery, churchyard, God's acre), campo santo (cemetery, God's acre). (various references) | |
Sranan | berpe (cemetery, God's acre), beripe (cemetery, God's acre). (various references) | |
Swedish | kyrkogård (cemetery, churchyard, church-yard, God's acre). (various references) | |
Turkish | mezarlik (cemetery, God's acre), mezarlık (boneyard, burial ground, cemetery, god's acre, good's acre, necropolis), kabristan (burial ground, cemetery, necropolis). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gonamзylyk, цwьlяд. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цвинтар (burial ground, cemetery, churchyard), кладавище. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nghĩa địa (burial-ground, cemetery, god's acre, necropolis), ca ba. (various references) | |
Welsh | mynwent (churchyard). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | capulus, cimeterium. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | carnale. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | cimetiere. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "graveyard": graveyards. (additional references) | |
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"Graveyard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Grooveyard. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "graveyard" (pronounced grā"vyÄ'rd) |
| 4 | -y Ä' r d | backyard, barnyard, boatyard, brickyard, churchyard, courtyard, junkyard, lumberyard, dockyard, farmyard, schoolyard, shipyard, stockyard, willyard. |
| 3 | -Ä' r d | bankcard, bodyguard, Boulevard, diehard, leotard, lifeguard, postcard, safeguard, scorecard, vanguard. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-r-r-v-y" | |
-2 letters: arrayed, drayage, ravaged, ravager, yardage. | |
-3 letters: dreary, garred, garvey, grader, graved, graver, grayed, grayer, ravage, regard, vagary. | |
-4 letters: adage, agave, array, darer, deary, deray, derry, drave, drear, dryer, gayer, grade, grave, gravy, gyred, gyved, radar, raged, rared, raved, raver, rayed, ready, redry, yager, yarer. | |
-5 letters: aery, agar, aged, ager, area, aver, dare, davy, dear. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-r-r-v-y" | |
+1 letter: graveyards. | |
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