: an area of land where dead people have been buried
an ancient burial ground
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Nearby are the Druidical worship sites of Avebury and Stonehenge; there is a Celtic burial ground hidden in one of Ashcombe's deep, romantic coombes.—
Hamish Bowles,
Vogue,
5 July 2026 In 1918, a neighboring property sale recorded inaccurate boundaries that improperly absorbed the cemetery into an adjacent parcel — the first of decades of land transfers that gradually left the burial ground isolated and inaccessible.—
Kamal Morgan. Produced With Ai Assistance,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 June 2026 There was also the time that it was used as a burial ground for some of the town’s earliest inhabitants.—
Sarah Kyrcz,
Hartford Courant,
28 June 2026 While researching in Savannah, Georgia, Jackson experienced a mysterious illness during a ghost tour in Taylor Square, a former African American burial ground.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for burial ground