graveyard

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms 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

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