CEMETERY
NOUNS
► BONE ORCHARD a cemetery → 1872 Amer. sl.
► BONEYARD a cemetery → 1872 US
► BOOT-HILL the frontier cemetery;, most of the early occupants died with their boots on; later, any cemetery → 1901 Amer. dial.
► BURIAL GROUND a cemetery, often a small one for a family’s use → 1934 Amer. dial.
► BURY GROUND a cemetery → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BURYING GROUND a cemetery, a churchyard, a graveyard → 1711
► BURYING HILL a cemetery → 1808 Amer. dial.
► BURYING LOT a cemetery → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BURYING PLACE a cemetery, a churchyard, a graveyard → 1382
► BURYING POINT a cemetery → 1975 Amer. dial.
► BURYING YARD a cemetery → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BURY PATCH a cemetery → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CAMPO SANTO a cemetery → 1856 Amer. dial.
► CEMENT CITY a cemetery → 1975 Amer. sl.
► CEMENT-TARY a cemetery → 1968 Amer. dial.
► CEMENT TREE a cemetery → 1968 Amer. dial.
► CITY OF DEATH a cemetery → 1966 Amer. dial.
► DEAD CENTRE a cemetery → 1961 UK sl.
► DEAD-GARTH a cemetery, the burying ground → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEATH’S MAILING a cemetery, a burial ground → 1839 Sc.
► DORMITORY a cemetery; a resting-place for the dead; a vault, a grave → 1634 obs.
► GALLERY THIRTEEN a cemetery, a prison burial ground → 1937 US sl.
► GRANITE ORCHARD a cemetery → 1968 Amer. dial.
► GRAVE PATCH a cemetery → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► HEADSTONE CITY a cemetery → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► LAIR a plot of ground in a cemetery; a grave → 1815 Sc.
► LAIR-STOW a cemetery, a burying place → 1000 obs.
► LAST HOME a cemetery, the grave; death → 20C US euphemism
► LAYSTALL a cemetery, a burial-place → 1527 obs.
► LAYSTOW a cemetery, a burial-place → 1452 obs.
► MARBLE CITY a cemetery → 1936 Amer. dial.
► MARBLE FARM a cemetery → 1978 Amer. dial.
► MARBLE FOREST a cemetery → 1950 Amer. dial.
► MARBLE GARDEN a cemetery → 1962 Amer. sl.
► MARBLE HILL a cemetery → 1965 Amer. dial.
► MARBLE ORCHARD a cemetery → 1925 US sl.
► MARBLE PARK a cemetery → 1965 Amer. dial.
► MARBLE TOWN a cemetery → 1945 US sl.
► MARBLE YARD a cemetery → 1965 Amer. dial.
► NECROPOLIS a cemetery → 1819
► OLD FIELD a cemetery, a graveyard → 1942 Amer. dial.
► OLD STONY LONESOME a cemetery or graveyard personified → 1948 Amer. dial.
► PLANTING GROUND a cemetery → 1966 Amer. dial.
► PLANTING SPOT a cemetery → 1966 Amer. dial.
► POLYANDRION a place of burial for a number of people; a common grave → 1612 chiefly Ancient Greece usage
► POLYANDRUM a place of burial for a number of people; a common grave → 1661 obs.
► REST-CAMP a cemetery → 20C Amer. sl., World War I usage
► ROCK GARDEN a cemetery → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SANCTUARY a cemetery, a churchyard; a piece of consecrated ground; the precincts of a church; a churchyard, cemetery → 1432 obs. exc. Eng. dial.;
► SANCTUARY GARTH a cemetery, a churchyard; a piece of consecrated ground; the precincts of a church; a churchyard, cemetery →1412 obs.
► SILENT CITY a cemetery → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SILENT VILLAGE a cemetery → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKELETON ORCHARD a cemetery → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SKELETON PARK a cemetery → 1936 Amer. dial.
► SKELETON YARD a cemetery → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SKULL ORCHARD a cemetery → 1960 Amer. dial.
► TAPHEPHOBIA fear of cemeteries → 1994 (Bk.)
► TAPHOPHILIA an abnormal love for funerals, graves, and cemeteries → 1991 (Bk.)
► UNDERGROUND HANG-OUT a cemetery, a graveyard → 1901 US criminals’ sl.
► YELLOW HOLE the pauper cemetery or burial-ground → 1900 Ireland
NOUNS – PERSON
► LAIR-HOLDER the owner of a burial plot in a cemetery → 1864 Sc.
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