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burial ground en · NOUN

Meanings

1. 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:

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Hypernyms

ground

Synonyms

cemetery