Churchyard \Church"yard`\, n.
   The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried;
   a cemetery.
   [1913 Webster]

         Like graves in the holy churchyard.      --Shak.

   Syn: Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis;
        cemetery; God's acre.
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	churchyard
    n 1: the yard associated with a church [syn: churchyard,
         God's acre]