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graveyard

[ greyv-yahrd ]

noun

  1. a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
  2. Informal. graveyard shift.
  3. a place in which obsolete or derelict objects are kept:

    an automobile graveyard.



graveyard

/ ˈɡɪˌɑː /

noun

  1. a place for graves; a burial ground, esp a small one or one in a churchyard
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of graveyard1

First recorded in 1765–75; grave 1 + yard 2
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The 70-year-old lives in a small mud house on the outskirts of Quetta, not far from a symbolic graveyard dedicated to the missing.

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Now the graveyard Mr Durma has tended for decades paints a vivid picture of the scale of death.

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At the same time, Young said, his anecdote about family graveyards and homeland suggests another political tendency - a "disturbing undertone of nativism".

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The only clue to the past is a small part of the wall from the original entrance to the graveyard.

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As the graveyard requiem kept escalating in its intensity, I remembered the advice that Clinton gave to Eddie Hazel when he first unleashed that voodoo guitar seance: “Play like your mother just died.”

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