Word cemetery has a synonym

Did you know that the word cemetery owns a synonym? I didn´t know it until I watch a movie called The Lena Baker story, by the way it´s a very nice movie, everyone is said to watch it because of the story and you also can check their accent.

graveyard, definition:

a place, often next to a church where dead people are buried

fonte:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/graveyard