Graveyard vs Reliquary - What's the difference?
graveyard | reliquary |
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.
A container to hold or display religious relics.
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, title=The Norwich Victims
, chapter=4/1 * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 13, author=Holland Cotter, title=To Bump Off Art as He Knew It, work=New York Times
, passage=And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside.}}
(label) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
As nouns the difference between graveyard and reliquary
is that graveyard is a tract of land in which the dead are buried while reliquary is a container to hold or display religious relics.graveyard
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(wikipedia graveyard)Noun
(en noun)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 graveyardreliquary
English
Noun
(reliquaries)citation, passage=“… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.
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