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graveyard

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grave·yard  (grvyärd)
n.
1. A burial ground; a cemetery.
2. A place where worn-out or obsolete equipment or objects are kept: an automobile graveyard.

graveyard
Noun
a place where dead people are buried, esp. one by a church
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.graveyardgraveyard - 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"

graveyard
noun cemetery, churchyard, burial ground, charnel house, necropolis, boneyard (informal) God's acre (literary)
Translations
graveyard [ˈgreɪvjɑːd] ncementerio, camposanto
graveyard [ˈgreɪvjɑːd] ncimetière m
graveyard [ˈgreɪvjɑːd] grave nFriedhof m
graveyard [ˈgreɪvjɑːd] ncimitero


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I feel as if something was reaching out of the graveyard to hold me-- something that wanted life--I don't like it--let's hurry.
In the middle of the graveyard stood a stone church with a green cupola where he used to go to mass two or three times a year with his father and mother, when a service was held in memory of his grandmother, who had long been dead, and whom he had never seen.
So they followed and heard the music grow lively, saw the banners wave in the breeze again when the graveyard was passed, and watched the company file into the dilapidated old church that stood at the corner of three woodland roads.
 
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