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CHURCHYARD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The yard associated with a church

Synonyms:

churchyard; God's acre

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("churchyard" is a kind of...):

yard (a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings))

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 Context examples: 

Then he told me to watch at one side of the churchyard whilst he would watch at the other.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Near the churchyard, and in the middle of a garden, stood a well-built though small house, which I had no doubt was the parsonage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I thought of my father's grave in the churchyard, by our house, and of my mother lying there beneath the tree I knew so well.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At last we reached the wall of the churchyard, which we climbed over.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At the churchyard wicket he stopped: he discovered I was quite out of breath.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But before he left, he went with me to Yarmouth, to see a little tablet I had put up in the churchyard to the memory of Ham.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am happy to-day, and write sitting on the seat in the churchyard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her grave is in Brocklebridge churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a grey marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word Resurgam.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We drove away, out of town, to the churchyard at Hornsey.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lucy did not answer, and I ran on to the entrance of the churchyard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)