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Exile vs Graveyard - What's the difference?

exile | graveyard |

As nouns the difference between exile and graveyard

is that exile is the state of being banished from one's home or country while graveyard is a tract of land in which the dead are buried.

As a verb exile

is to send into exile.

exile

English

Noun

(wikipedia exile) (en noun)
  • The state of being banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let them be recalled from their exile .
  • Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.

    Synonyms

    * (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expat

    Derived terms

    * internal exile

    Verb

    (exil)
  • To send into exile.
  • * Tennyson
    • Exiled from eternal God.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

    Synonyms

    * banish

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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