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burial ground

burial ground noun: a cemetery or graveyard.

Noun

burial ground (plural burial grounds)

  1. A cemetery or graveyard.
    • They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178
    • In the burial ground is a wishing-well named after St Augustine - the first Archbishop of Canterbury - who, in the 6th century, is said to have blessed it.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 110
    Synonyms:
    cemetery

burial ground meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

burial ground in Tamil

இடுகாடு, கல்லறை

burial ground in Urdu

burial ground, grave
خواب گاہ xvāb gāh
burial ground
شمشان śamśān

burial ground in Malayalam

graveyard, cemetery, churchyard
ശ്മശാനം, ശതാനകം, ശവം അടക്കുന്നസ്ഥലം, ആദഹനം, ചിമിത്തേരി, സിമിത്തേരി

burial ground in Kannada

ಶ್ಮಶಾನ, ಮಸಣ

Synonyms of burial ground

Forms of burial ground

pluralburial grounds

Questions about burial ground

What does burial ground mean?
Burial ground means a cemetery or graveyard.
What is burial ground in Tamil?
Burial ground in Tamil is இடுகாடு, கல்லறை. See Burial ground meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is burial ground?
Burial ground is a noun.
What is the plural of burial ground?
The plural of burial ground is burial grounds.

Words near burial ground in the dictionary

  1. burial
  2. burial case
  3. burial cases
  4. burial chamber
  5. burial chambers
  6. burial ground
  7. burial grounds
  8. burial mound
  9. burial mounds
  10. burial place
  11. burial societies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burial ground (page history and authors); burial ground (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); خواب گاہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); burial ground (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); burial ground (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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