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burial ground [′ber·ē·əl ‚grau̇nd]

(nucleonics)

A place for burying unwanted radioactive objects to prevent escape of their radiations, the earth acting as a shield. Also known as graveyard.

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Burial Ground

Aceldama

potter’s field; burial place for strangers. [N. T.: Matthew 27:6–10, Acts 1:18–19]

Alloway graveyard

where Tam O’Shanter saw witches dancing among opened coffins. [Br. Lit.: Burns Tam O’Shanter in Benét, 985]

Arlington National Cemetery

final resting place for America’s war heroes. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 95]

Boot Hill

Tombstone, Arizona’s graveyard, where gunfighters are buried. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 178]

Campo Santo

famous cemetery in Pisa, with Gothic arcades and Renaissance frescoes. [Ital. Hist.: Collier’s, XV, 433]

Castel Sant’Angelo

built in Rome by Hadrian as an imperial mausoleum. [Rom. Hist.: Collier’s, XVI, 539]

Catacombs of St. Calixtus

in Rome, one of the largest of subterranean burial places, with eleven miles of galleries. [Ital. Hist.: Collier’s, IV, 458]

Escorial

former monastery in central Spain; mausoleum of Spanish sovereigns. [Span. Hist.: NCE, 890]

Flanders Field

immortalized in poem; cemetery for WWI dead. [Eur. Hist.: Jameson, 176]

Gettysburg

site of Civil War battle; cemetery for war dead. [Am. Culture: EB, IV: 515]

God’s Acre

Moravian graveyard in Winston-Salem, N.C., with 3,000 identical marble markers. [Am. Hist.: Collier’s, XIX, 471]

Grant’s Tomb

New York City burial place of General Ulysses S. Grant. [Am. Culture: EB, IV: 680]

Great Pyramid of Cheops

enormous Egyptian royal tomb. [World Hist.: Wallechinsky, 255]

Holy Sepulcher Jerusalem

cave where body of Jesus is said to have lain. [Christ. Tradition: Brewer Dictionary, 814]

Machpelah

cave where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob are buried. [O.T.: Genesis 23:19, 25:9, 49:30, 50:13]

potter’s field

burial ground purchased with Judas’s betrayal money. [N.T.: Matthew 27:6–8]

Stoke Poges

village whose churchyard is thought to be the scene of Gray’s “Elegy.” [Br. Lit.: Benét, 966]

Taj Mahal

fabulous tomb built by Shah Jahan for wife. [Ind. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 317]

Tomb of Mausolus

Queen Artemisia’s spectacular memorial to husband. [World Hist.: Wallechinsky, 256]

Tomb of the Unknowns

in Arlington National Cemetery; commemorates nameless war dead. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1118]

Westminster Abbey

abbey filled with tombs and memorials of famous British subjects. [Br. Hist.: EB, X: 632–633]