English words for 'Alternative form of churchyard.'
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noun
- (informal) A graveyard.
- (dominoes) In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used.
- (aviation, automotive, slang) A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard.
- (firefighting) An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire.
noun
- Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
- An underground vault.
- (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
- (botany) Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.
- (botany) Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
- a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
noun
noun
adj
noun
- A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
- A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
- A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
- A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
- Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”).
- a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
noun
- A small chapel or shrine.
- A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
- (botany) A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
- A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
- (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
- A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
- A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
- (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
- A garland or circlet for the head.
- Alternative form of chapelet.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
noun
- (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot.
- (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
- A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
- A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
- (Scotland) A bog; a mire.
- (British dialectal) A bed or resting place.
- (seduction community) A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
- the habitation of wild animals
verb
noun
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
- (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- (countable, geology) A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.
- (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
- (British) A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
- (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
- (printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- a lack of feeling or expression or movement
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
- building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- (transitive) To wall or wall up with stones.
- (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
- (transitive, slang) Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
- (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
- (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- (transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
- kill by throwing stones at
- remove the pits from
noun
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
adj
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
verb
noun
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- One who keeps secrets.
- Death (literary)
verb
noun
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
noun
- A cemetery shared by more than one church congregation or municipality, usually to lighten the financial burden (cost per congregation or municipality) and usually nondenominational/nonsectarian.
- (US, when capitalized as "Union cemetery", with "Union" in an attributive proper noun sense) A cemetery principally for the interment of Union soldiers in the American Civil War.
- (When capitalized as "Union Cemetery") An instance of such a cemetery, as for example Union Cemetery in Redwood City, California or Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.
noun
- (historical, northern British) A bench, a settle, a pew.
- A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.
- The canopy over an altar, etc.
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
noun
noun
- (figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.
- A vase with a footed base.
- (historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
- (botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
- A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
- A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
- a large pot for making coffee or tea
- a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
verb
noun
- (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
- (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
- A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
- A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
- (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
- a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
- a web that resembles a tent or carpet
verb
- (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
- (intransitive) To go camping.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
- (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
- Synonym of fumigate.
- live in or as if in a tent
noun
- The back pew of a church.
- The back seat of an automobile, van, or bus.
- (newspaper, publishing) A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
- A bench at the back of a room or seating area.
- A back bench in a courtroom.
- A position of secondary importance.
- (politics, UK, New Zealand, often attributive) In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by members of each party group who are not party leaders, cabinet ministers, holders of offices such as the whips, etc.
- The back row of a classroom.
- any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons
adj
noun
- An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden.
- A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.
- (rare) A pagoda sleeve.
- (historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties and colonial powers in southern India.
- an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof
noun
- An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
- The discus used in ancient sports.
- The flat stone covering a cromlech.
- A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
- A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
- game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
verb
name
- A monument in County Meath, Ireland. A prehistoric neolithic monument, a circular ceremonial burial mound structure with astronomical alignments
- A monument complex in County Meath, Ireland; containing the mound, other burial structures, various henges, and additional neolithic structures in the area. It is a World Heritage Site.
noun
- (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
- A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
- (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
- (Philippines) An exclusive gated community; a subdivision.
- a settlement smaller than a town
- a community of people smaller than a town
noun
- (informal) A graveyard.
- (dominoes) In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used.
- (aviation, automotive, slang) A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard.
- (firefighting) An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire.
noun
- Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
- An underground vault.
- (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
- (botany) Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.
- (botany) Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
- a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
noun
noun
adj
noun
- A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
- A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
- A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
- A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
- Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”).
- a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
noun
- A small chapel or shrine.
- A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
- (botany) A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
- A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
- (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
- A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
- A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
- (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
- A garland or circlet for the head.
- Alternative form of chapelet.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
noun
- (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot.
- (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
- A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
- A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
- (Scotland) A bog; a mire.
- (British dialectal) A bed or resting place.
- (seduction community) A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
- the habitation of wild animals
verb
noun
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
- (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- (countable, geology) A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.
- (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
- (British) A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
- (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
- (printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- a lack of feeling or expression or movement
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
- building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- (transitive) To wall or wall up with stones.
- (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
- (transitive, slang) Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
- (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
- (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- (transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
- kill by throwing stones at
- remove the pits from
noun
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
adj
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
verb
noun
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- One who keeps secrets.
- Death (literary)
verb
noun
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
noun
- A cemetery shared by more than one church congregation or municipality, usually to lighten the financial burden (cost per congregation or municipality) and usually nondenominational/nonsectarian.
- (US, when capitalized as "Union cemetery", with "Union" in an attributive proper noun sense) A cemetery principally for the interment of Union soldiers in the American Civil War.
- (When capitalized as "Union Cemetery") An instance of such a cemetery, as for example Union Cemetery in Redwood City, California or Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.
noun
- (historical, northern British) A bench, a settle, a pew.
- A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.
- The canopy over an altar, etc.
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
noun
noun
- (figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.
- A vase with a footed base.
- (historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
- (botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
- A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
- A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
- a large pot for making coffee or tea
- a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
verb
noun
- (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
- (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
- A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
- A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
- (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
- a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
- a web that resembles a tent or carpet
verb
- (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
- (intransitive) To go camping.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
- (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
- Synonym of fumigate.
- live in or as if in a tent
noun
- The back pew of a church.
- The back seat of an automobile, van, or bus.
- (newspaper, publishing) A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
- A bench at the back of a room or seating area.
- A back bench in a courtroom.
- A position of secondary importance.
- (politics, UK, New Zealand, often attributive) In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by members of each party group who are not party leaders, cabinet ministers, holders of offices such as the whips, etc.
- The back row of a classroom.
- any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons
adj
noun
- An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden.
- A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.
- (rare) A pagoda sleeve.
- (historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties and colonial powers in southern India.
- an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof
noun
- An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
- The discus used in ancient sports.
- The flat stone covering a cromlech.
- A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
- A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
- game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
verb
noun
- (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
- A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
- (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
- (Philippines) An exclusive gated community; a subdivision.
- a settlement smaller than a town
- a community of people smaller than a town
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