burial ground
noun1
A cemetery or graveyard.
- They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
- In the burial ground is a wishing-well named after St Augustine - the first Archbishop of Canterbury - who, in the 6th century, is said to have blessed it.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 110: