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# graveyard

«graveyard» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of land, often around a church, where dead people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a graveyard, graveyards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A graveyard is a piece of land, often around a church, where dead people are buried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#m1)

2) A graveyard is a place where old, broken or unwanted things are left: «a car graveyard», «an elephant graveyard». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#m2)

3) «Graveyard shift» means work done late at night until morning (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, gravestones in a churchyard graveyard tell us names and ages of people from the past. In church life, Christians bury the dead there with prayers. In spooky stories, graveyards appear at night, though real ones are calm, respectful places. Phrases: «graveyard shift», «in the graveyard», «churchyard».

### examples

- The old church has a graveyard with mossy stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#x1)
- We visited Grandad's grave in the graveyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#x2)
- Please walk quietly and respectfully in a graveyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#x3)
- The ghost story was set in a graveyard at midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#x4)
- Old aeroplanes are kept in a desert graveyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#x5)
- Nurses on the graveyard shift work all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#x6)
- His road lay in front of a graveyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/#x7)

### note

Countable; one word. Similar words: cemetery (a large burial ground, not always by a church), churchyard (the land around a church). Graveyards are places to remember people, so behave with respect.

### In the corpora

- [The elephant graveyard, a secret place where elephants go to die, is a myth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/17/)
- [There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «graveyard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graveyard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.