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Definition of Graveyard

1. Noun. A tract of land used for burials.

Definition of Graveyard

1. n. A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

Definition of Graveyard

1. Noun. A tract of land in which the dead are buried. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Graveyard

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Graveyard

Literary usage of Graveyard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE graveyard RABBIT From 'Comes One With a Song.' In the white moonlight, where the willow waves, He halfway gallops among the graves— A tiny ghost in the ..."

2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"Here I would state that, while moving along the north side of graveyard Hill, my command waa exposed not only to the fire of the fort and rine- pits in ..."

3. Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of by John Timbs (1868)
"St. Peter Cheap, corner of Wood-street, Cheapside, where the graveyard still remains, ... St. Thomas the Apostle, now graveyard, corner of Cloak -lane. ..."

4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... district headquarters for General Parsons' and my brigade to assault and take the fort upon graveyard Hill at daylight upon the morning of the fourth. ..."

5. The Silver Lining by John Henry Jowett (1907)
"THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE graveyard "You did He quicken, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins."—Ephesians ii. I. "Dead through your trespasses ..."

6. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1902)
"REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON graveyard INSCRIPTIONS. THE COMMITTEE ON graveyard INSCRIPTIONS, appointed by the Society, ..."

7. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1896)
"He died in 1790, and was buried by his wife in the graveyard of Christ Church, Philadelphia. The epitaph which he had written when a printer was not put ..."

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