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Burying_ground vs Graveyard - What's the difference?

burying_ground | graveyard | Related terms |

Burying_ground is a related term of graveyard.


As a noun graveyard is

a tract of land in which the dead are buried.

burying_ground

Not English

Burying_ground has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'burying_ground':

branchiosaurid

graveyard

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
  • (figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
  • # (card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
  • # (sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
  • Synonyms

    * (land used for burial) see also .

    Derived terms

    * elephants' graveyard * flies' graveyard * ghost in the graveyard * graveyard chompers * graveyard cough * graveyard market * graveyard-minded * Graveyard of the Atlantic * Graveyard of the Pacific * graveyard orbit * graveyard poet * graveyard poetry * graveyard shift * graveyard slot * graveyard spiral * graveyard test * graveyard tour * graveyard watch * whistle past the graveyard