burial ground

Questions about burial ground

What does burial ground mean?

burial ground means "a tract of land used for burials".

What is another word for burial ground?

Close synonyms include cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burying ground, memorial park. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burial ground a common word?

burial ground is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.