graveyard
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From grave + yard. Displaced Middle English cemitorie, cementorie (> English cemetery), from Old French cimitiere, from Medieval Latin cimitērium. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/
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Noun[edit]
graveyard (plural graveyards)
- A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
- (figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
- (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.
- (card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
Synonyms[edit]
- (land used for burial): see also Thesaurus:cemetery.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from graveyard
Translations[edit]
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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