"burial-place" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: burial-places [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} burial-place (plural burial-places)
  1. Alternative form of burial place Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: burial place
    Sense id: en-burial-place-en-noun-u5ffkJwg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1821, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter XIV, in The Spy, H M Caldwell, →OCLC, page 156:",
          "text": "The graveyard was an inclosure on the grounds of Mr. Wharton, which had been fenced with stone, and set apart for the purpose, by that gentleman, some years before. It was not, however, intended as a burial-place for any of his own family.",
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          "ref": "1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, →OCLC, pages 101-102:",
          "text": "And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.",
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          "ref": "1967 [1949], Syed Waliullah, chapter 3, in Tree Without Roots (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 27:",
          "text": "Khaleque, the landowner, who had contributed most of the money needed to transform the neglected burial-place of an unknown into a mazar, masked his pride and pleasure with difficulty. He solemnly declared: ‘Perhaps now we shall be forgiven for neglecting the saint all these years.’",
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