how to pronounce graveyard
/ˈɡɹɛɪvˌjɑːɹd/
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graveyard is pronounced in two syllables
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An example use of graveyard in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… set at midnight in a graveyard and there …”
meanings of graveyard
noun:
- A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
- (figurative, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
- A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
- The discard pile, in some trading card games.
graveyard frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR
the word graveyard occurs in english on average 3.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
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