MEANING
1. A place where discarded bones, machinery, vehicles, or other remains are gathered.
2. An informal term for a cemetery or burial ground.
Use it for
Use for a graveyard-like store of bones, vehicles, or wreckage.Build a setting from discarded shells, remains, or obsolete machines.
Words that belong together
- aircraft boneyard
- boneyard of machinery
- abandoned boneyard
- old boneyard
- family boneyard
- boneyard gate
On the page
The aircraft boneyard stretched beyond the fence, every fuselage stripped and silent.
The old boneyard lay beneath cypress trees and leaning stones.
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Word forms
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- boneyard
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Usage notes
Informal American usage often names a scrapyard or aircraft storage site; it can also mean a cemetery. Sense 2: The cemetery sense is informal and regional; avoid it in formal nonfiction.
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