graveyard

graveyard

noun

Definition of GRAVEYARD

a piece of land used for burying the dead <reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone>

Synonyms boneyard, God's acre, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis, potter's field

Related Words catacombs, churchyard; crypt, grave, mausoleum, sepulchre (or sepulcher), sepulture, tomb, vault