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Definition of Burial ground
1. Noun. A tract of land used for burials.
Specialized synonyms: Potter's Field
Generic synonyms: Land Site, Site
Definition of Burial ground
1. Noun. A cemetery or graveyard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burial Ground
Literary usage of Burial ground
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Pittsfield, (Berkshire County,) Massachusetts by Joseph Edward Adams Smith (1876)
"THE burial-ground near the first meeting-house, established probably about the
year 1754, * continued in use until the year 1834, and was for that time the ..."
2. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1855)
"April 3,1789. Directed, His Excellency, Thomas Mifflin Esq., in Council.
burial ground TOR STRANGERS IN PHILADELPHIA, 1789. Whereas by an act of the Genl. ..."
3. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1898)
"R, 40, 44), also known for a time as Tindall'a burial ground, once the chief ...
A little to the W. of this cemetery is the Friends' burial ground, ..."
4. The Law Reports by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Wirgman Hemming (1873)
"V.-CM The limit within which the consent of the owners of buildings 1873 was
required before any new burial-ground could be opened was by sect. ..."
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