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churchyards

churchyards is the plural 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

Questions about churchyards

What is churchyards the plural of?
Churchyards is the plural of churchyard.

Words near churchyards in the dictionary

  1. churchwork
  2. churchy
  3. churchyard
  4. churchyard cough
  5. churchyard coughs
  6. churchyards
  7. Churdar
  8. Churdars
  9. churel
  10. churels
  11. Churg

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