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Graveyard (cemetery)

A consecrated cemetery ground containing burial plots, headstones, and mausoleums.

First in use: ancient / pre-modern
Duplicate · right

Code graveyard

An archival repository folder containing deprecated legacy features, dead code, or retired microservices.

First in use: the 2000s

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Headstones vs. dead code.

Which meaning of Graveyard is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Graveyard (cemetery) came first (ancient / pre-modern). Code graveyard arrived in the 2000s. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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Graveyard (cemetery)

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