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burial ground

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burial ground
n
a graveyard or cemetery
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Noun1.burial ground - a tract of land used for burialsburial ground - a tract of land used for burials    
potter's field - a cemetery for unknown or indigent people
land site, site - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"

burial ground
noun graveyard, cemetery, churchyard, necropolis, golgotha (rare), God's acre an ancient burial ground
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burial ground ncimitero


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And so the field became the first burial ground in Boston.
This, it appeared, was the Indian burial ground, and had been used for generations.
Jago in the Cape de Verd Islands, I remember having seen in a ravine a retired corner covered with bones of the goat; we at the time exclaimed that it was the burial ground of all the goats in the island.
 
 
 
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