graveyard
English
Etymology
From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
graveyard (plural graveyards)
- A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cemetery
- (figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
- (collectible card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
- 2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, →ISBN, page 49:
- Certain cards place other cards here because such cards might have abilities deemed too strong if they sent them to the graveyard instead.
- 2006, Michael J. Flores, Deckade: 10 Years of Decks, Thoughts, and Theory!, →ISBN, page 235:
- If you want to be tricky, though, Rapid Decay can be a flying elbow drop out of nowhere for a surprise win against graveyard manipulation decks; they will always see a Beetles coming, remember.
- 2015, Kinetik Gaming, Magic the Gathering Game Guide (Unofficial), →ISBN:
- When a player does discard or use a card or when a creature also died or a spell gets destroyed, that card gets placed into the player's graveyard.
- (sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
- (collectible card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
- (attributively) A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
- 2024 January 14, Luke Winkie, “A Whale of a Time”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-17:
- Her husband, of course, came dressed as Herman Melville.) She's a veteran of these marathons, and warned me about the forthcoming graveyard stretch—when Moby-Dick melds with the altered brain chemistry of sleep deprivation.
- (US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”)
Derived terms
- aircraft graveyard
- automobile graveyard
- elephants' graveyard
- flies' graveyard
- ghost in the graveyard
- graveyard chompers
- graveyard cough
- graveyard market
- graveyard-minded
- Graveyard of the Atlantic
- Graveyard of the Pacific
- graveyard orbit
- graveyard poet
- graveyard poetry
- graveyard shift
- graveyard slot
- graveyard spiral
- graveyard stew
- graveyard test
- graveyard tour
- graveyard watch
- whistle past the graveyard
Translations
tract of land in which the dead are buried
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final storage place for collections of things no longer used
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