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A churchyard is the piece of land around a church, and in Britain that land is very often a burial ground: grass, old stones, sometimes a yew tree, a quiet shortcut through the village. It is not the church building. It is also not always the same as a cemetery. A cemetery may be a large planned ground far from any church; a churchyard belongs to that church and sits against its walls. Graveyard is the more general word for a place of graves. Churchyard feels British and a little old; American towns more often say cemetery. People are still buried in some churchyards, but many are full, and new graves go elsewhere.
組成church + yard (an enclosed piece of land by a building). Inherited from Middle English chircheyerd; there is also kirkyard, from Old Norse kirkjugarðr. An older English word, chirchetoun / churchtown, was replaced by this one.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
churchyardnoun/ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.jɑɹd/
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A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.
- They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.
- Ayot St Lawrence's most famous inhabitant, George Bernard Shaw, moved into the New Rectory in 1906 because, it is said, of a gravestone epitaph in the churchyard. This recorded the death of a woman who lived to be 70 with the comment 'Her time was short'. Shaw thought that a place that considered a life of 70 years short was the right place for him.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。