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1.
A ~ is an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried.
They made their way to a ~ to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
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2.
If you call a place a ~ 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 ~ of rusting cranes.
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