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单词 burial ground
释义
burial ground
noun[C]
uk
/ˈber.i.əl ˌɡraʊnd/us
/ˈber.i.əl ˌɡraʊnd/
anareaoflandwheredeadbodiesareburied,especiallyalongtimeago
（尤指古老的）墓地，坟地
Synonyms
cemetery
graveyard
necropolis
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Places where bodies are buried or cremated
  • catacomb
  • cemetery
  • charnel house
  • churchyard
  • columbarium
  • crematorium
  • crypt
  • grave
  • graveside
  • graveyard
  • mausoleum
  • necropolis
  • ossuary
  • pyre
  • resting place
  • sepulchre
  • the Pyramids
  • tomb
  • vault
(Definition ofburial groundfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • Once a year the living held feasts in the burial ground, and invited the ghosts to share in the repast.
  • The burial ground contains sixteen graves, which will give the annual percentage of mortality.
  • The church is built on a lofty promontory, in the middle of a very large burial ground.
  • They had no burial ground in the settlement, and he was laid to rest several miles from his home.
  • To preserve the body from the wolves it was placed upon a scaffold, and then later carried to the borders of a lake, on the border of which was the burial ground of the family.

burial ground| American Dictionary

burial ground
noun[C]
us
/ˈber·i·əl ˌɡrɑʊnd/
anareaoflandwherebodiesareburied
(Definition ofburial groundfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofburial ground

burial ground
A related factor in selecting a fresh site had to do with theburialgroundin the old homestead.
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They prevented any person who looked poor from entering theburialground.
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I understand that a parish may have itsburialgroundin another parish.
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Another time we were discussing for ever so long whether a disusedburialgroundmight be used as a tramway shelter.
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The grievance on that ground would be intensified ten-fold if the thing applied to the parish churchyard or theburialground.
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People concerned in developing aburialgroundshould be prepared to safeguard the interests and the feelings of the relatives of those buried.
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No graveyard orburialgroundbelonging to any other denomination is to be taken away.
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They built a chapel and arranged theirburialground.
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It is very objectionable that religious bodies should have a right in these schemes to claim a site for aburialground.
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Aburialgroundcan be put on a hillside but not an aerodrome.
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Theburialgroundis held both for the burgh ratepayers and the landward ratepayers.
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The question is whether in any case the disusedburialgroundwas regarded as a source of profit.
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It has on its doorstep the mass animalburialground, where 500,000 animals are buried.
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What was a fashionableburialgroundin 1837 and in subsequent years is no longer fashionable.
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That concerns a privately owned cemetery which had not been used as aburialgroundsince 1854.
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