graveyards
Where tombstones stand
Graveyards are burial grounds, places where the dead are interred.
The term originally referred specifically to churchyards—land surrounding a church used for burials—while cemetery denoted any burial ground.
This distinction has largely faded: The old graveyard behind the church dates to the 1700s.
Figuratively, a graveyard is where things go to die or be forgotten: a graveyard for failed startups.
The graveyard shift is the overnight work shift, roughly midnight to 8 a.m.
Memorial stones over graves
- headstonesBurial site monuments
- gravesBurial sites
- plotsSecret plans or storylines
- casketsBurial containers for bodies
interment · cemetery · burials · mausoleums · crypts · epitaphs · markers · vaults
Burial ground beside chapel
- necropolisAncient cemetery complex
- memorial parkLandscaped burial grounds
- potter's fieldBurial ground for indigents
- ossuaryReceptacle for skeletal remains
catacomb · ancestral · family plot · national cemetery · ancestors · heritage
Disturbingly strange
- hauntedOccupied by ghosts
- spookyUnsettlingly strange
- fogLow-lying cloud cover
- mistFine airborne moisture
silence · darkness · shadows · ravens · crows · moonlight · gothic · desolate
No longer in use
- abandonedLeft behind completely
- forgottenNo longer recalled
- defunctNo longer existing
- dead endPassage without outlet
wasteland · resting place · repository · dumping ground · discarded · retired · relics · remnants
Labor in timed blocks
- overnightSpanning evening to morning
- third shiftOvernight work schedule
- nocturnalActive during darkness
- skeleton crewMinimum workers needed
quiet hours · solitary · lonely · after hours · midnight · predawn · deserted · empty
tombstones
Memorial stones over graves
- headstonesBurial site monuments
- gravesBurial sites
- plotsSecret plans or storylines
caskets · interment · cemetery · burials · mausoleums · crypts · epitaphs · markers · vaults · columbarium
churchyard
Burial ground beside chapel
- necropolisAncient cemetery complex
- memorial parkLandscaped burial grounds
- potter's fieldBurial ground for indigents
ossuary · catacomb · ancestral · family plot · national cemetery · ancestors · heritage
eerie
Disturbingly strange
mist · silence · darkness · shadows · ravens · crows · moonlight · gothic · desolate · abandoned
obsolete
No longer in use
dead end · wasteland · resting place · repository · dumping ground · discarded · retired · relics · remnants · obsolescence
shift work
Labor in timed blocks
- overnightSpanning evening to morning
- third shiftOvernight work schedule
- nocturnalActive during darkness
skeleton crew · quiet hours · solitary · lonely · after hours · midnight · predawn · deserted · empty · stillness
- Gothic castledungeons, towers, turrets, battlements, drawbridges
- burial groundsgraves, tombs, crypts, vaults, churchyards
- game environmentsdungeons, arenas, mazes, open worlds, labyrinths
- cemeteriescemetery, graves, burial, headstones, headstone
- Gothic horrorghost story, haunted houses, Dracula, vampires, Frankenstein
- historic sitesruins, historic site, basilica, monument, fortress
graveyardsmaternity wards
Hospital areas for childbirth
birthing centers · nurseries · delivery rooms · cradles · hospitals
graveyardsnightclubs
Evening entertainment venues
amusement parks · carnivals · dance halls · stadiums · festivals
- graveyard shiftLate-night work period
- ship graveyardsSites of abandoned vessels
- whistling past the graveyardFaking calm amid fear
- elephants' graveyardLegendary mass death site
- graveyard hoursLate-night work period
- graveyard watchOvernight work hours