burial ground

noun

: an area of land where dead people have been buried

an ancient burial ground

Examples of burial ground in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Subsequent research and excavations found the site also served as a burial ground. —ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026

One of the largest mass graves in Mexico was reported in 2017 when more than 250 skulls were found in what appeared to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz. —CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026

Its above-ground tombs tell centuries of stories and offer a striking visual unlike any other American burial ground. —Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026

At Green-Wood Cemetery, an almost five-hundred-acre burial ground in western Brooklyn that rises and falls along an old push moraine, a nonprofit has partnered with the city on interventions meant to keep stormwater out of sixteen nearby sewersheds during heavy rainfall. —Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for burial ground

• aboveground
• battleground
• belowground
• paperbound
• turnaround
• ultrasound
• underground
• wraparound
• abound
• aground
• around
• astound