Also, here's a free pet peeve: it's only a graveyard if it's next to a church. You're welcome!
Also, here's a free pet peeve: it's only a graveyard if it's next to a church. You're welcome!
That's not correct. A graveyard primarily means a cemetary next to a church, but this is not exclusive. A graveyard can be elsewhere and not next to a church. Any dictionary will show this, websters[1], oxford learners online[2], dictionary.com[3]. Even wikipedia's entry for graveyard shows this. [4]
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graveyard
[2] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...
Not true. You can have cemeteries with a church or graveyards not. There's a connotation of "graveyards" as older than cemeteries, and most older ones were near churches, but it's never been a strict definition.
While we're on it though, "graveyard" is a recentish word ("grave" and "yard" are both old Germanic words but the compound word only comes from the 1700s). The Old English word was "licburg", meaning "corpse town". ("lic" is the source of the D&D/fantasy game "lich")