(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:29:58

Church"yard` (?), n.

The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.

Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak.

Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.

 

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