graveyard
nounEtymology
From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).
- inherited from *gʰórdʰos✻
- inherited from *gard✻
- inherited from yerd
Definitions
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 period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
- graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch
- Her husband, of course, came dressed as Herman Melville.) She's a veteran of these marathons, and warned me about the forthcoming graveyard stretch—when Moby-Dick melds with the altered brain chemistry of sleep deprivation.
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Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).
The neighborhood
Derived
aircraft graveyard, automobile graveyard, elephants' graveyard, flies' graveyard, ghost in the graveyard, graveyard chompers, graveyard cough, graveyard market, graveyard-minded, graveyard of empires, Graveyard of the Atlantic, Graveyard of the Pacific, graveyard orbit, graveyard poet, graveyard poetry, graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard spiral, graveyard stew, graveyard test, graveyard tour, graveyard watch, graveyardy, whistle past the graveyard
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA