Antonyms for graveyard
ˈgreɪvˌyɑrdgrave·yard

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. graveyardnoun

   Synonyms:
   churchyard, cemetery, burial-ground, necropolis

2. graveyardnoun

   A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

   Synonyms:
   burial-ground, churchyard, necropolis, cemetery

3. graveyardnoun

   A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.

   Synonyms:
   cemetery, churchyard, burial-ground, necropolis

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolisnoun

   a tract of land used for burials

   Synonyms:
   necropolis, burying ground, burial site, cemetery, burial ground, memorial park

How to use graveyard in a sentence?

1. Hindenburg Research:

   As expected, they dodged the question, they seem to be whistling past the graveyard at this point.

2. Erich Fromm:

   The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

3. Li Shaoxian:

   Whether it is a graveyard depends on whether a country seeks hegemony.

4. Steve Brusatte:

   We read reports about a German geology student who in the 1970s found fragments of bone, but didn't know what to make of them, we went back to the site and found that there weren't just a few fragments, but a mass graveyard!

5. Aula Bahadur Ale:

   It looks like a graveyard here, even those houses that have not been flattened have developed cracks. People are too afraid to go into them. We are still feeling the aftershocks that makes people terrified.

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