[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/churchyard.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / churchyard

[← C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/C/)

# churchyard

«churchyard» in Mova's school dictionary: **The land around a church, often with a graveyard where…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a churchyard, churchyards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The land around a church, often with a graveyard where people are buried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/#m1)

2) (in stories) A quiet, sometimes spooky place with gravestones, trees and old walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons gravestones in churchyards give clues about people of the past (names, ages, families). In ghost stories churchyards are spooky at night. Phrases: in the churchyard, churchyard wall, churchyard yew.

### examples

- The old yew tree stands in the churchyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/#x1)
- We read the names on the gravestones in the churchyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/#x2)
- My great-grandparents are buried in the village churchyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/#x3)
- The children walked past the dark churchyard at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/#x4)
- The churchyard wall is covered in moss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/#x5)
- Snowdrops grow in the churchyard in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/#x6)
- Now we are in the churchyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/#x7)

### note

One word. Similar: graveyard (any burial ground), cemetery (a large burial ground not always beside a church). Be quiet and respectful in churchyards.

### In the corpora

- [Yews can live well over a thousand years, and some in British churchyards are among the oldest trees in Europe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade/10/)
- [In a burial the coffin is lowered into a grave in a cemetery or churchyard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «churchyard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churchyard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.