graveyard.
A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
Meaning & usage
A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable. The discard pile, in some trading card games.
A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable. A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch
Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).
Where this word comes from
From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.