kirkyard
English
editEtymology
editFrom kirk + yard. Cognate with Danish kirkegård, Faroese kirkjugarður, Icelandic kirkjugarður, Norwegian Bokmål kirkegård, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkjegård, and Swedish kyrkogård.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkirkyard (plural kirkyards)
- (chiefly Scotland) A churchyard, especially one in Scotland.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 60:
- It stands in the kirkyard only six miles from the battle site […]
Synonyms
edit- See also Thesaurus:cemetery.