graveyard

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
  2. A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable. broadly,figuratively
    — They're all out on this southbound odyssey / And the train pulls out of Kankakee / Rolls past the houses, farms, and fields / Passing towns that have no name / And freight yards full of old black men / And the graveyards of rusted automobiles.
  3. A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.; The discard pile, in some trading card games. broadly,figuratively
    — Certain cards place other cards here because such cards might have abilities deemed too strong if they sent them to the graveyard instead.
  4. A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.; A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there. broadly,figuratively
  5. A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity. attributive
    — graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch
  6. Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”). US,slang

词形变化

graveyards plural

词汇关系

衍生词
aircraft graveyard automobile graveyard elephants' graveyard flies' graveyard ghost in the graveyard graveyard chompers graveyard cough graveyard market graveyard-minded graveyard of empires 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 graveyardy whistle past the graveyard

词源

From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).
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