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Webster 1913 Edition


Kirkyard

Kirk′yardˊ

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Noun.
A churchyard.
[Scot.]

Definition 2024


kirkyard

kirkyard

English

Noun

kirkyard (plural kirkyards)

  1. (chiefly Scotland) A churchyard, especially one in Scotland.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 60:
      It stands in the kirkyard only six miles from the battle site […].

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:cemetery.