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 →

2) (in stories) A quiet, sometimes spooky place with gravestones, trees and old walls. tree →

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 →
• We read the names on the gravestones in the churchyard. tree →
• My great-grandparents are buried in the village churchyard. tree →
• The children walked past the dark churchyard at night. tree →
• The churchyard wall is covered in moss. tree →
• Snowdrops grow in the churchyard in winter. tree →
• Now we are in the churchyard. tree →

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.
• In a burial the coffin is lowered into a grave in a cemetery or churchyard.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «churchyard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.