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churchyard::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | god's acre |
| Type of | yard |
Examples of churchyard
churchyard
Go left and continue up past the church and then turn right into the churchyard.
From the haringeyindependent.co.uk
Take a footpath on the right, indicated by a fingerpost opposite the churchyard.
From the worcesternews.co.uk
When they came into the churchyard, Papa sent Mama ahead with Elise and Hermann.
From the denverpost.com
Stroll around the churchyard to read some more nautical names on the tombstones.
From the edp24.co.uk
I see something very similar in St Lawrence's churchyard whenever I pass through.
From the getreading.co.uk
He's a parfait gentleman, but vapors from the churchyard have gotten to them all.
From the washingtonpost.com
John Frost, the Chartist leader, who died in 1887, is buried in the churchyard.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
He remained at the house until his death in 1980 and is buried in the churchyard.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Activists from Occupy London have been camped in the churchyard since 15 October.
From the guardian.co.uk
- The yard associated with a church
- A churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself. In the Scots language or Northern English language this can also be known as a kirkyard or kirkyaird.
- To dream of walking in a churchyard, if in winter, denotes that you are to have a long and bitter struggle with poverty, and you will reside far from the home of your childhood, and friends will be separated from you; but if you see the signs of springtime, you will walk up in into pleasant ...
- It is not difficult to understand how the churchyard has come to be regarded as the special haunt of ghosts. The popular imagination may well be excused for supposing that the spirits of the dead continue to hover over the spot where their bodies are laid. ...
- An attribute of Alan Churchard
