graveyard

graveyard
/grayv"yahrd'/, n.
1. a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
2. Informal. See graveyard shift.
3. a place in which obsolete or derelict objects are kept: an automobile graveyard.
[1765-75; GRAVE1 + YARD2]

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