CHURCHYARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does churchyard mean? 

• CHURCHYARD (noun)
  The noun CHURCHYARD has 1 sense:

1. the yard associated with a church

  Familiarity information: CHURCHYARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHURCHYARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The yard associated with a church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

churchyard; God's acre

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

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

 Context examples 

She had been walking in the churchyard, too, very early; and she got into the cart, and sat in it with her handkerchief at her eyes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"And then we spend the night, you and I, in the churchyard where Lucy lies. This is the key that lock the tomb. I had it from the coffin-man to give to Arthur."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If it had not been for that, we should have carried on the garden wall, and made the plantation to shut out the churchyard, just as Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For a wife I have but the maniac upstairs: as well might you refer me to some corpse in yonder churchyard.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If she had, I should have felt as if I ought to do it, but Plumfield is about as gay as a churchyard, you know, and I'd rather be excused.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But see the church in the hollow, and the folk who cluster in the churchyard!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When anything had to be done, it was always the elder who was forced to do it; but if his father bade him fetch anything when it was late, or in the night-time, and the way led through the churchyard, or any other dismal place, he answered: Oh, no father, I’ll not go there, it makes me shudder! for he was afraid.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Looking back as I turned into the front garden, I saw Mr. Murdstone leaning against the wicket of the churchyard, and Mr. Quinion talking to him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)