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Gravestone vs Graveyard - What's the difference?

gravestone | graveyard |

As nouns the difference between gravestone and graveyard

is that gravestone is a stone slab set at the head of a grave while graveyard is a tract of land in which the dead are buried.

gravestone

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stone slab set at the head of a grave.

    • Synonyms

    * headstone; tombstone

    See also

    * through-stone

    graveyard

    English

    (wikipedia 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