EGAVE

graveyard

About 1.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
  2. noun A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable. The discard pile, in some trading card games. A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
  3. noun The discard pile, in some trading card games.
  4. noun A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
  5. noun A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
    graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch
  6. noun Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).

Similar words

burial ground burying ground cemetery necropolis burial site grave gravesite burial tomb funeral

Often followed by

of and in at shift for is where was

Word family

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