churchyard

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The whole army of the enemy (though near a hundred in number), seeing the fate of their general, gave back many paces, and retired behind a new-dug grave; for the churchyard was the field of battle, where there was to be a funeral that very evening.

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  1. noun A yard adjacent to a church, especially a cemetery.
  2. noun The ground on which a church stands.

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  • On the other side of the churchyard was the rest of the Byrne family, all in black, protected from the rain by large black umbrellas that reminded me of black sails on death ships. —  Celtic Riddle
  • And then having caused a grave to be made in the unconsecrated part (as it is accounted) of that which is called the churchyard, they forcibly took the body from the widow whose right and property it was, and buried it there. —  The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself
  • The flowers and tributes to the saint statues around our churchyard were his doing. —  Argent by the Tiber
  • Teenage girl decapitated 700 years ago reburied in English churchyard L.A. confidential: When a giant landlord is near bankruptcy, that can't be good Turkish students, teachers protest removal of Darwin article from state-run science magazine
  • Bolivian President Morales says army, police officials in contact with CIA; offers no proof Teenage girl decapitated 700 years ago reburied in English churchyard Hood not so good? —  chicagotribune.com -
 

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  1. = Scots kirkyard, from Middle English chircheʒeard, -ʒerd, from late Anglo-Saxon *cyric-geard, cyrceiærd (the earlier term being Middle English cherch-toun, from Anglo-Saxon ciric-tūn: see church-town) (= Icelandic kirkjugardhr = Swedish kyrkogȧrd = Danish kirkegaard), from cyrice, cirice, church, + geard, yard: see church and yard. Cf. equivalent D. kerkhof= German kirchof.
 

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