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Cemetary vs Churchyard - What's the difference?

cemetary | churchyard |

As nouns the difference between cemetary and churchyard

is that cemetary is while churchyard is a patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.

cemetary

English

Noun

(cemetaries)

    • churchyard

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia churchyard) (en noun)
  • A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (graveyard) see also .

    Derived terms

    * churchyard cough