See boneyard in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "0 0 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Burial",
"orig": "en:Burial",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "boneyard sale"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bone",
"3": "yard"
},
"expansion": "bone + yard",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From bone + yard.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "boneyards",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boneyard (plural boneyards)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"A graveyard."
],
"id": "en-boneyard-en-noun-v7wogf-7",
"links": [
[
"graveyard",
"graveyard"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) A graveyard."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "95 4 1 1",
"sense": "graveyard",
"word": "cemetery"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Dominoes",
"orig": "en:Dominoes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "3 90 3 4",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Dominoes",
"orig": "en:Dominoes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used."
],
"id": "en-boneyard-en-noun-I4kvl5ty",
"links": [
[
"dominoes",
"dominoes"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dominoes) In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used."
],
"topics": [
"dominoes",
"games"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Automotive",
"orig": "en:Automotive",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Aviation",
"orig": "en:Aviation",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
11,
19
]
],
"text": "B-52s in a boneyard",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
19,
27
]
],
"text": "a 440 V-8 from the boneyard",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
136,
144
]
],
"ref": "1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:",
"text": "Or what is conveyed to those unversed in railway matters by reports following a shed visit that \"the frame of Claud Hamilton lay in the boneyard and had many endearing messages of farewell chalked on it\"?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
5,
13
]
],
"ref": "1999, Naval Aviation News, volumes 82-83, page 37:",
"text": "The “Boneyard” is a place of antiques and historic symbolism, a burial ground for aircraft.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
65,
73
]
],
"ref": "2017, William A. Flanagan, Aviation Records in the Jet Age:",
"text": "Beginning in December 1969, the entire fleet was retired to the “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard."
],
"id": "en-boneyard-en-noun-s9nBbbgE",
"links": [
[
"aviation",
"aviation"
],
[
"automotive",
"automotive"
],
[
"dumpsite",
"dumpsite"
],
[
"aircraft",
"aircraft"
],
[
"junkyard",
"junkyard"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(aviation, automotive, slang) A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "2 2 72 24",
"sense": "dumpsite for aircraft",
"word": "aircraft graveyard"
}
],
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"aeronautics",
"aerospace",
"automotive",
"aviation",
"business",
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"transport",
"vehicles"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Firefighting",
"orig": "en:Firefighting",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "6 25 26 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English endocentric compounds",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 12 29 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 4 26 68",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 4 25 69",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire."
],
"id": "en-boneyard-en-noun-tCKAaamE",
"links": [
[
"firefighting",
"firefighting"
],
[
"mineral",
"mineral"
],
[
"soil",
"soil"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(firefighting) An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire."
],
"topics": [
"firefighting",
"government"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boneyard.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-boneyard.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-boneyard.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-boneyard.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-boneyard.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "boneyard"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English endocentric compounds",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Burial",
"en:Dominoes"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "boneyard sale"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bone",
"3": "yard"
},
"expansion": "bone + yard",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From bone + yard.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "boneyards",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boneyard (plural boneyards)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"A graveyard."
],
"links": [
[
"graveyard",
"graveyard"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) A graveyard."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Dominoes"
],
"glosses": [
"In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used."
],
"links": [
[
"dominoes",
"dominoes"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dominoes) In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used."
],
"topics": [
"dominoes",
"games"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Automotive",
"en:Aviation"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
11,
19
]
],
"text": "B-52s in a boneyard",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
19,
27
]
],
"text": "a 440 V-8 from the boneyard",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
136,
144
]
],
"ref": "1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:",
"text": "Or what is conveyed to those unversed in railway matters by reports following a shed visit that \"the frame of Claud Hamilton lay in the boneyard and had many endearing messages of farewell chalked on it\"?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
5,
13
]
],
"ref": "1999, Naval Aviation News, volumes 82-83, page 37:",
"text": "The “Boneyard” is a place of antiques and historic symbolism, a burial ground for aircraft.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
65,
73
]
],
"ref": "2017, William A. Flanagan, Aviation Records in the Jet Age:",
"text": "Beginning in December 1969, the entire fleet was retired to the “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard."
],
"links": [
[
"aviation",
"aviation"
],
[
"automotive",
"automotive"
],
[
"dumpsite",
"dumpsite"
],
[
"aircraft",
"aircraft"
],
[
"junkyard",
"junkyard"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(aviation, automotive, slang) A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"aeronautics",
"aerospace",
"automotive",
"aviation",
"business",
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"transport",
"vehicles"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Firefighting"
],
"glosses": [
"An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire."
],
"links": [
[
"firefighting",
"firefighting"
],
[
"mineral",
"mineral"
],
[
"soil",
"soil"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(firefighting) An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire."
],
"topics": [
"firefighting",
"government"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boneyard.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-boneyard.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-boneyard.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-boneyard.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-boneyard.wav.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "graveyard",
"word": "cemetery"
},
{
"sense": "dumpsite for aircraft",
"word": "aircraft graveyard"
}
],
"word": "boneyard"
}
Download raw JSONL data for boneyard meaning in English (3.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.