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church-yard

church-yard is the alternative form of churchyard.

Meaning of churchyard

Noun

churchyard (plural churchyards)

  1. A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.
    • They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    kirkyard

Forms of church-yard

pluralchurch-yards

Questions about church-yard

What is church-yard the alternative form of?
Church-yard is the alternative form of churchyard.

Words near church-yard in the dictionary

  1. church-ridden
  2. Church-Rosser properties
  3. Church-Rosser property
  4. Church-Rosser theorem
  5. Church-Turing thesis
  6. church-yard
  7. church-yards
  8. churchal
  9. Churcham
  10. churchane
  11. churchanity

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