Meaning & use
graveyard
A piece of ground, often next to a church, where dead people are buried.
See it in a sentence
Fog drifted between the old headstones in the quiet graveyard.
The graveyard shift at the factory runs from midnight until eight in the morning.
A note on using this word
'Graveyard shift' is a common idiom for overnight work hours, unrelated to burial grounds.
Words with a similar meaning
cemetery
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