BURIAL GROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burial ground mean? 

• BURIAL GROUND (noun)
  The noun BURIAL GROUND has 1 sense:

1. a tract of land used for burials

  Familiarity information: BURIAL GROUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURIAL GROUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tract of land used for burials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

burial ground; burial site; burying ground; cemetery; graveyard; memorial park; necropolis

Hypernyms ("burial ground" is a kind of...):

land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burial ground"):

potter's field (a cemetery for unknown or indigent people)