burial ground

English

Noun

burial ground (plural burial grounds)

1. A cemetery or graveyard.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:

     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.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 110:

     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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:cemetery

Hypernyms

• ground

Translations

cemetery or graveyard — see graveyard