Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

burying-ground

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: bury-ing--ground
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of burying ground.

Example Sentences

"[H]is lordſhip had changed his mind about going to Flanders, but expected to meet him, on ſuch a day and hour, in the burying-ground near Red-lion-ſquare."
"When the marriage act was mooted, Keith swore that he would revenge himself upon the bishops, by taking some acres of land for a burying-ground, and underburying them all."
"She would have covered Cissy over with flowers, shut her away from prying eyes, and buried her beside her nameless little baby in the grassy burying-ground under the pines of the “up back” church, with a bit of kindly prayer from the old Free Methodist minister."

Inflected Forms

burying-grounds (plural)

Questions

What does burying-ground mean?: Alternative form of burying ground.

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