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church·yard (c̸hʉrc̸h′yärd′)

noun

the yard or ground adjoining a church, often used as a place of burial

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churchyard Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • overlook: On either side of the door there were arched windows overlooking the churchyard.

Adjective modifier

  • sub-circular: The remnants of a sub-circular churchyard are still apparent and this holds a number of interesting early memorials.

Modifies a noun

  • yew: The undergrowth of fantasy at Congresbury is a typical background for the churchyard yew.

Noun used with modifier

  • parish: Lynne is buried in the parish churchyard at Eynsham, near Oxford.
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churchyard quotes

   Then Harrow-on-the-Hill's a rocky island And Harrow churchyard full of sailor's graves, And the constant click and kissing of the trolley busses hissing Is the level to the Wealdstone turned to waves.

-Betjeman, SirJohn

It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. The ashes of an oak in the chimney are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell†and when a whirlwind hathblownthedustofthechurchyard intothe church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce,This is the Patrician, this the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebeian bran.

-Donne,John

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

-Jowett, Benjamin

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