Burial-ground
a tract of land for burial of the dead; a cemetery, often a small or primitive one.
Historical Examples
Memories of Bethany John Ross Macduff
Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak Harriette McDougall
The Indiscretion of the Duchess Anthony Hope
The Eyes of Asia Rudyard Kipling
The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes Thomas a Kempis
Among the Pines James R. Gilmore
The Remarkable History of the Hudson’s Bay Company George Bryce
The Evolution Of An English Town Gordon Home
Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.
A Thorny Path [Per Aspera], Complete Georg Ebers
noun
a graveyard or cemetery
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