Graveyard

A graveyard is an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried. ... If you call a place a graveyard of particular things, you mean that there are many broken or unwanted things of that kind there.

Cemetery

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον, "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs.

Synonyms of graveyard

boneyard,
cemetery,
God's acre,
memorial park,
necropolis,
potter's field

About graveyard

Though these two words are used interchangeably to refer to a place where people are buried, there is a subtle difference in meaning between the two. 'Graveyard' is the older of the two terms, and it is mostly used to refer to a burial ground which adjoins a church.25-Oct-2011