boneyard


boneyard

noun

Definition of BONEYARD

a piece of land used for burying the dead <a once-notorious gunslinger who now lies in the forlorn boneyard of an Old West ghost town>
Related Words catacombs, churchyard; crypt, grave, mausoleum, sepulchre (or sepulcher), sepulture, tomb, vault

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