burial ground
burial ground · burial grounds
кладовище, цвинтар, могилки
кладбище, погост, киркут
Friedhof, Kirchhof, Gottesacker
A cemetery or graveyardA cemetery or graveyard.
» The archaeologists needed to relocate the burial grounds before the pipeline could be built.
Eccles17 · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesA cemetery or graveyard.
More definitions
- a tract of land used for burials
Examples
2 sentencesThe archaeologists needed to relocate the burial grounds before the pipeline could be built.
The university's archeological department claimed that it was being built on an ancient burial ground.
Forms
plural: burial grounds| Singular | burial ground |
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regular
Synonyms
6 synonymsClose in meaning
- a tract of land used for burials:cemeterygraveyardburial siteburying groundmemorial parknecropolis
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.