Word Meanings - CHURCHYARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.

Related words: (words related to CHURCHYARD)

• BURINIST
  One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• CHURCH
  AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
• CHURCHYARD
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• ANBURY; AMBURY
  A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen. 2. A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes. (more info) vein: cf. Prov. E. amper a tumor with inflammation. Cf. the first
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• UNBURY
  To disinter; to exhume; fig., to disclose.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• DANBURITE
  A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• TILBURY
  A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.