burying ground

See also: burying-ground

English

Alternative forms

• burying-ground

Noun

burying ground (plural burying grounds)

1. (now rare) A burial ground; a graveyard or cemetery.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The memoirs of a lady of quality”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:

     [H]is lordſhip had changed his mind about going to Flanders, but expected to meet him, on ſuch a day and hour, in the burying-ground near Red-lion-ſquare.