What does churchyard mean?
Churchyard means A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard..
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/ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.jɑɹd/ · noun
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.
Ayot St Lawrence's most famous inhabitant, George Bernard Shaw, moved into the New Rectory in 1906 because, it is said, of a gravestone epitaph in the churchyard. This recorded the death of a woman who lived to be 70 with the comment 'Her time was short'. Shaw thought that a place that considered a life of 70 years short was the right place for him.
Use churchyard when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Churchyard means A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard..
Common synonyms include kirkyard.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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