GRAVEYARD


Meaning of GRAVEYARD in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ greɪvjɑ:(r)d ]

( graveyards)

1.

A graveyard is an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried.

They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.

N-COUNT

2.

If you call a place a graveyard of particular things, you mean that there are many broken or unwanted things of that kind there.

This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes.

N-COUNT : usu sing , oft N of n [ disapproval ]

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