A place for burial; a churchyard, graveyard, cemetery.
1711. Lond. Gaz., 4911/4. They intend to let by Lease the Burying-ground in Bunhill-field.
1814. Q. Rev., II. 33. A Moravian burying-ground.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., 270. Getting out, just as a party of unscrupulous resurrectionists were in the act of entering the burying-ground.
1872. ‘Mark Twain,’ Innoc. Abr., xv. 99. Père la Chaise, the national burying-ground of France.
