graveyard

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
2. (broadly, figuratively) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
3. (broadly, figuratively) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
4. (attributive) A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
5. (US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).

Concepten

kerkhof

begraafplaats

dodenakker

Synoniemen

cemetery

burial ground

God’s acre

churchyard

grave

🪦

necropolis

tomb

burying ground

memorial park

cemetary

burial site

burial place

crematorium

burial-ground

tombstone

sepulcher

Kyoto

Golgotha

potter’s field

burying-ground

boneyard

boot hill

polyandrium

buryingground

Aoyama

dusties

memorial park

Vertalingen

Friedhof

cimitero

cementerio

cimetière

camposanto

Kirchhof

νεκροταφείο

cemitério

campo santo

mezarlık

cementiri

coemeterium

κοιμητήριο

Gottesacker

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/

Etymologie (Engels)

From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).