Word Type

Noun

The word "graveyard" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

arlington cemetery church church grounds church property church yard city every town outer perimeter of church town vicinity of graves

Defined As

same as cemetary

Derived Terms

Graveyard of the Atlantic Graveyard of the Pacific aircraft graveyard automobile graveyard elephants' graveyard flies' graveyard ghost in the graveyard graveyard chompers graveyard cough graveyard market graveyard of empires graveyard orbit graveyard poet graveyard poetry graveyard shift graveyard slot graveyard spiral graveyard stew graveyard test graveyard tour graveyard watch graveyard-minded graveyardy whistle past the graveyard

Has Part

grave more bones than vegetable garden

Context

card games sports

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

land site site

Type Of (IsA)

grave site outdoor location where humans bury dead people

Related Terms

bury dead discard land pile storage useable useful

Synonym Network

burial ground cemetery

Used For

burial buring dead bury dead body bury relatives burying dead creatures burying dead people burying dead people or animals dead dead people dig up zombies flowers headstones honoring dead memorials to dead mourners old bones place to grieve place to remember research genology settings for horror movies settings for scary stories

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.