What is another word for graveyard?

Pronunciation: [ɡɹˈe͡ɪvjɑːd] (IPA)

The spooky and eerie appearance of graveyards often brings chills down people's spines. However, as morbid as it may seem, graveyards are a necessary part of society. Synonyms for the word "graveyard" include cemetery, burial ground, final resting place, necropolis, churchyard, graveyard site, grave site, memorial park, and mortuary. Each word evokes its own unique connotations and historical significance. Cemetery, burial ground, and final resting place refer directly to the physical location where bodies are buried. Necropolis is often used to describe large, ancient, or historical burial sites. Churchyard refers to the graveyards located on the grounds of a church. Grave site, memorial park, and mortuary are all more modern terms and are often associated with a more sanitized and neutral view of death.

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Usage examples for Graveyard

Next morning at the earliest respectable hour Withero carried the little coffin under his arm and Jamie walked beside him to the graveyard.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
In the small graveyard are two altar tombs, which drew our attention.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
You're taking to graveyard poetry-and, if you ask me, that's worse than whisky.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower

Famous quotes with Graveyard

  • They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
    Alexander Cockburn
  • Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.
    Whitey Herzog
  • Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
    Robert Jackson
  • They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
    Conor Oberst
  • The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
    J. Frank Dobie

Related words: walking through a graveyard, graveyard stories, dealing with a loved one's death, cemetery, graveyard pictures

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