Definitions for graveyard

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graveyard grave·yard

Spelling: [greyv-yahrd]

IPA: /ˈgreɪvˌyɑrd/

Graveyard is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in graveyard (aadegrrvy).

Definitions for graveyard

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:

Origin of graveyard

First recorded in 1765-75; grave¹ + yard²

Examples for graveyard

Start the first fire directly beyond the graveyard to the east.

And he stood there lookin', and he says to me: 'No, Katy, that is a graveyard.'

Excuse me, Mr. Bangs, but have you been spendin' this lovely forenoon in the graveyard?

He turned away at last, and was leaving the graveyard, when some one touched him on the arm.

"We run afoul of each other over to the graveyard," he grunted.

The graveyard is a ridiculous place for anybody to be, but I shall be there—and soon.

On walks along the waterfront he would treat it all like a graveyard.

So you stop away from school, and I find you in the graveyard!

But he rather liked to visit the graveyard on Sunday afternoons.

Kendrick, I wasn't so far off when I talked about that graveyard trip, eh?