churchyard

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• General-American: /ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.jɑɹd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ.jɑːd/
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• CMU ARPABET: CH ER1 CH Y AA2 R D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English chircheyerd (also kirkeyerd > English kirkyard), equivalent to church + yard. Compare also Middle English kurk-garth, kyrkgarth, kirrkegærd, from Old Norse kirkjugarðr (“churchyard; graveyard”). Replaced Middle English chirchetoun from Old English ċirictūn (churchtown).

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: цвінта́р (cvintár) — patch of land adjoining a church
• Danish: kirkegård — patch of land adjoining a church
• Dutch: kerkhof — patch of land adjoining a church
• Dutch: kerktuin — patch of land adjoining a church
• Esperanto: tombejo — patch of land adjoining a church
• Finnish: kirkkomaa — patch of land adjoining a church
• Galician: adro — patch of land adjoining a church
• German: Kirchhof — patch of land adjoining a church
• German: Friedhof — patch of land adjoining a church
• Hungarian: templomkert — patch of land adjoining a church
• Macedonian: цр́квиште (cŕkvište) — patch of land adjoining a church
• Middle English: chircheyerd — patch of land adjoining a church
• Mongolian: оршуулгын газар (oršuulgyn gazar) — patch of land adjoining a church
• Norwegian Bokmål: kirkegård — patch of land adjoining a church
• Norwegian Bokmål: kirkegard — patch of land adjoining a church
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kyrkjegard — patch of land adjoining a church
• Polish: cmentarz przy kościele — patch of land adjoining a church
• Scottish Gaelic: cladh — patch of land adjoining a church
• Swedish: kyrkogård — patch of land adjoining a church