Usually means: Graveyard adjacent to a church.
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  1. churchyard: Merriam-Webster
  2. churchyard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. churchyard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. churchyard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. churchyard: Vocabulary.com
  6. Churchyard, churchyard: Wordnik
  7. churchyard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. churchyard: Wiktionary
  9. churchyard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. churchyard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. churchyard: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Churchyard, churchyard: Dictionary.com
  13. churchyard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Churchyard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Churchyard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. churchyard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. churchyard: Rhymezone
  18. Churchyard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. churchyard: FreeDictionary.org
  20. churchyard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. churchyard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. churchyard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. churchyard: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. churchyard: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ noun:  A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.

Similar:
church-yard, graveyard, yard, burial ground, graveside, greenyard, lichyard, schoolyard, green, cemetery, more...

Opposite:
graveyard, cemetery

Types:
graveyard, cemetery, burial ground, necropolis, more...

Phrases:
thomas churchyard, churchyard cough, churchyard beetle, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, quiet, small, green, english, lonely, ancient, local, neighbouring, beautiful

Colors:
    gray,     moss green,     stone,     charcoal,     sepia, more...



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Similar:
church-yard, graveyard, yard, burial ground, graveside, greenyard, lichyard, schoolyard, green, cemetery, more...

Opposite:
graveyard, cemetery

Types:
graveyard, cemetery, burial ground, necropolis, more...

Phrases:
thomas churchyard, churchyard cough, churchyard beetle, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, quiet, small, green, english, lonely, ancient, local, neighbouring, beautiful

Colors:
    gray,     moss green,     stone,     charcoal,     sepia, more...



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