graveyard
/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/ sustantivo B1En español: cementerio, campo santo, camposanto, panteón
- 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.
- 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.
- A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity. · graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch
- Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).
Plural graveyards
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‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”
I am so fond of romantic things, and a graveyard full of buried hopes is about as romantic a thing as one can imagine, isn’t it?
“I was down to the graveyard to plant a rosebush on Matthew’s grave this afternoon,” said Anne dreamily.
Anne went to the little Avonlea graveyard the next evening to put fresh flowers on Matthew’s grave and water the Scotch rosebush.
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