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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
graveyard
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
graveyard shift
the graveyard shiftinformal (= a shift that begins late at night or very early in the morning)
▪ He chose to work the graveyard shift because the pay was slightly better.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
shift
▪ Reid reportedly worked as a stock clerk on the graveyard shift at a Wal-Mart in Mountain View.
▪ I worked the graveyard shift and she would wake me up.
■ VERB
bury
▪ Bennet died in Chinley 24 May 1759 and was buried in the Presbyterian graveyard there.
▪ The day after his death on 9 December 1812 he was buried in the graveyard of St Mary's Parish church.
▪ He was not a Roman Catholic and so was buried in a public graveyard just on the outskirts of the village.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In his dreams he saw Kee's grandfather and all the other spirits from the graveyard.
▪ The scene at the graveyard was more than usually touching.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graveyard

Graveyard \Grave"yard"\, n. A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
graveyard

1773, from grave (n.) + yard (n.1). Graveyard shift "late-night work" is c.1907, from earlier nautical term, in reference to the loneliness of after-hours work.

Wiktionary
graveyard

n. 1 A tract of land in which the dead are bury. 2 (context figuratively by extension English) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable. 3 # (context card games English) The discard pile, in some trading card games.

WordNet
graveyard

n. a tract of land used for burials [syn: cemetery, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolis]

Wikipedia
Graveyard (disambiguation)

A graveyard is a cemetery. It may also refer to:

Film and television
  • The Graveyard (film), 2006 low-budget horror film
Music
  • Graveyard (band), a Swedish rock/metal band
    • Graveyard (album), a 2007 album by Graveyard
  • The Graveyard (album), 1996 album by King Diamond
Sports
  • Eugene E. Stone III Stadium (Columbia, South Carolina), the home football pitch of the South Carolina Gamecocks because the pitch is located next to a cemetery.
  • A common nickname for Olympic Park Stadium used by the Melbourne Storm rugby league club.
Others
  • The Graveyard (video game), 2008 Belgian videogame
  • Graveyard (game), a game most commonly played by children on the playground, or at parties
  • Graveyard poets, or Graveyard School, 18th-century English poets
Graveyard (band)

Graveyard is a Swedish hard rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2006.

Graveyard (album)

Graveyard is the debut studio album by Swedish hard rock band Graveyard, released on September 10, 2007 by Swedish label Transubstans Records and February 19, 2008 on American label TeePee Records. The album received good reviews and critical acclaim.

Graveyard (game)

Graveyard is a game most commonly played by children on the playground, or at parties. It is often initiated by one or more persons with prior knowledge of the rules, and is usually played with several others who are unaware of them. The game is very simple, and is most commonly used only as a means to select one of the participants for a task they would not be willing to perform voluntarily.

Usage examples of "graveyard".

With the service ended, the body of John Adams was laid to rest beside that of his wife, in the graveyard across the road from the church.

As soon as he could get a decent Albanian to replace him, Nicu was going to be a graveyard boy.

As soon as I can get a decent Albanian to replace you, you are going to be a graveyard boy.

I mean, sure, it knocked the stuff out of me, scared the soul out one ear and back in the other, hit my wind and tore my gut, broke the bones and shook the wits, but, but, but, wife, but, but, but, clear sweet Meg, Meggy, Megan, I wish you were here, it might tamp the tobacco tars out of your half-ass lungs and bray the mossy graveyard backbreaking meanness from your marrow.

The fog appeared less menacing on the main road than it had in the unlit graveyard, though the high amber street-lights and the flashing Belisha beacons at the zebra crossing looked like the Martian machines out of War of the Worlds.

I took time out to kick over a Blackshirt who was lumbering to his feet in our path and, although he went down fast enough, there were others all around, dark shapes looming up in the smoke mists like spectres in a graveyard.

The graveyards are chockablock with murder victims and us dim sods are too thick to see it.

His view slit swung past the dark Temple of Cupay and the long stretch of terraced homes, their pastel hues fitfully lit by the dying flames in the Graveyard.

Then we searched the graveyard for a time - close to leaping out of our skins - in the suspicion that Dracula might still be lurking there.

Occasionally patched, the stone bore testimony to endurance and beauty even as the graveyard contents announced the fleetingness of life.

Dey put de corpse in one wagon and de fambly rode in another, but all de other folks walked to de graveyard.

And at least one should be a mage, in case this Graveyard Hag is hanging around.

If the strike is not won Paterson will be a howling wilderness and a graveyard industrially, because the workers will not stay there.

When the traveller passing by a lone graveyard interprets the tall and slender shrub laden with white blossoms as a swaying ghost, the misconception does not arise from any fault of mere vision, but from the type of former knowledge which the other surroundings of the moment call up, these evidently giving the mind a certain bias in its interpretation of the sensuous, or colour, impressions.

Von Kharkov could only lurch on as the forlorn shadows of the graveyard slid past, the tendrils of fog that drifted among the stones a tantalizing reminder of his still-distant goal.