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burying-ground

burying-ground is the alternative form of burying ground.

Meaning of burying ground

Noun

burying ground (plural burying grounds)

  1. (archaic) A burial ground; a graveyard or cemetery.
    • [H]is lordſhip had changed his mind about going to Flanders, but expected to meet him, on ſuch a day and hour, in the burying-ground near Red-lion-ſquare.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The memoirs of a lady of quality”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 143

Forms of burying-ground

pluralburying-grounds

Questions about burying-ground

What is burying-ground the alternative form of?
Burying-ground is the alternative form of burying ground.

Words near burying-ground in the dictionary

  1. burying ground
  2. burying grounds
  3. burying one's head in the sand
  4. burying the hatchet
  5. burying the lede
  6. burying-ground
  7. burying-grounds
  8. buryingplace
  9. buryingplaces
  10. buryings
  11. Buryn

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