A graveyard is an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried.
They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
Synonyms: cemetery, churchyard, burial ground, charnel house More Synonyms of graveyard
2. countable noun [usually singular]
If you call a place a graveyardof particular things, you mean that there are many broken or unwanted things of that kind there.
[disapproval]
This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rustingcranes. [+ of]
3. countable noun [usu Nfor/of n]
If you call an event or place the graveyardfor particular people or their hopes, you mean that those people have often failed in such events or in that place.
[written]
America has proved a graveyard for British retailers.
graveyard in British English
(ˈɡreɪvˌjɑːd)
noun
a place for graves; a burial ground, esp a small one or one in a churchyard
graveyard in American English
(ˈgreɪvˌjɑrd)
noun
a burial ground; cemetery
Examples of 'graveyard' in a sentence
graveyard
The North East pair must be wondering why the famous old place has become such a graveyard for visiting teams this season.
The Sun (2016)
This cannot become a graveyard for footballers who want a last payday.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The northeast has become a managerial graveyard.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The church and graveyard are now no more than ruins.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It is understood the field was chosen as a graveyard because a church could be seen in the background.
The Sun (2008)
Pity about the graveyard time slot.
The Sun (2015)
She didn't do much better there so was given the graveyard slot of transport.
The Sun (2008)
The harbour bay added to this gloomy atmosphere, as it had become a naval graveyard.
Davey, Ray Rev. & Cole, John A Channel of Peace (1993)
No wonder BBC3 is burning off four episodes in this graveyard slot.
The Sun (2014)
As the graveyard slot suggests, this is strictly one for their diehard fans.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
League Two has become a graveyard for managers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But its rich lands have become a premature graveyard when the river floods, as it frequently does.
The Sun (2008)
I served with some of those buried in the church graveyard.
The Sun (2006)
I also spent hours in the church graveyard looking for owl pellets.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This appears to be a small graveyard, contained within rough concrete walls on the edge of the woods.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Yet with scant attention given to most of its members, it has also become something of a graveyard for smallstocks.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I take a path through the trees to a small graveyard; it sits by a picturesque ruined folly.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Places with one general store, a church, a graveyard and little more.
Kennedy, Douglas In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA. (1989)
Tucked away in a graveyard slot in the middle of the week, Exposure punches way above its weight.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other languages
graveyard
British English: graveyard /ˈɡreɪvˌjɑːd/ NOUN
A graveyard is an area of land where dead people are buried.
They went to the graveyard to put flowers on her grave.
American English: graveyard
Arabic: مَدْفَن
Brazilian Portuguese: cemitério
Chinese: 墓地
Croatian: groblje
Czech: hřbitov
Danish: kirkegård
Dutch: kerkhof
European Spanish: cementerio iglesia
Finnish: hautausmaa
French: cimetière
German: Friedhof
Greek: νεκροταφείο
Italian: cimitero
Japanese: 墓地
Korean: 묘지
Norwegian: gravlund
Polish: cmentarzysko
European Portuguese: cemitério
Romanian: cimitir
Russian: кладбище
Latin American Spanish: cementerio
Swedish: kyrkogård
Thai: สุสาน
Turkish: mezarlık
Ukrainian: кладовище
Vietnamese: nghĩa trang
All related terms of 'graveyard'
graveyard orbit
an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in their normal orbits
graveyard shift
If someone works the graveyard shift , they work during the night .
graveyard slot
the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
middle watch
the watch between midnight and 4 am
dump orbit
an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in their normal orbits
Chinese translation of 'graveyard'
graveyard
(ˈɡreɪvjɑːd)
n(c)
墓地 (mùdì) (块(塊), kuài)
(noun)
Definition
a place where dead people are buried, esp. one by a church
They made their way to the graveyard to pay their respects to the dead.
Synonyms
cemetery
There was a small cemetery just outside the town.
churchyard
burial ground
an ancient burial ground
charnel house
necropolis
A small Etruscan museum and necropolis are situated 3 km east of the village.