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Synonyms for graveyard
ˈgreɪvˌyɑrdgrave·yard

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Wiktionary5.0 / 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

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 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

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. graveyardnoun

    Synonyms:
    cemetery, necropolis, mortuary, churchyard, burial-ground, burying-ground

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "graveyard":

    cemetery, tomb, grave

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#8065grave
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How to use graveyard in a sentence?

  1. Andrew Schneider:

    It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

  2. 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.

  3. J. Frank Dobie:

    The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

  4. Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson:

    Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

  5. Suhail Shaheen:

    Afghanistan is the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan is a swamp, the more you move, the more you bog down.


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