graveyard
n. countable B1 Intermediate US //ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd// UK //ɡɹˈeɪvjɑːd// grave·yard
n. a place where dead people are buried. It is a more poetic or old-fashioned word for cemetery.
n. an area of ground set aside for the burial of the dead; often implies a sense of age, silence, or melancholy compared to the neutral term cemetery.
The old graveyard is full of tall trees.
We walked through the quiet graveyard to visit her grandmother's grave.
The moonlight cast long shadows across the weathered headstones, turning the silent graveyard into a landscape of memory and loss.
From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).