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Garth vs Courtyard - What's the difference?

garth | courtyard |

As a proper noun garth

is , shortened form of gareth.

As a noun courtyard is

an area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings.

garth

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
  • A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
    • a cloister garth
  • * Tennyson
    • A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit.
  • A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
  • (paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
  • (paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
  • A dam or weir for catching fish.

    • Related terms

    * gravegarth ----

    courtyard

    English

    (wikipedia courtyard)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings
    • She sat in the courtyard , enjoying the garden.

    See also

    * atrium * forecourt * court * yard