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churchyard
has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] (geography) the yard associated with a church
Synonyms Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)The first sentence , with its platitudinous irony , announces an emblematic intent : `` The way to the churchyard ran_along beside the highroad , ran beside it all_the_way to the end ; that_is_to_say , to the churchyard '' . The first sentence , with its platitudinous irony , announces an emblematic intent : `` The way to the churchyard ran_along beside the highroad , ran beside it all_the_way to the end ; that_is_to_say , to the churchyard '' . The highroad , one might say at_first , belongs_to life , while the way to the churchyard belongs_to death . But the highroad , according_to the description of its traffic , belongs_to life as it is lived in unawareness of death , while the way to the churchyard belongs_to some other sort of life : He is `` a man raving_mad on_the_way to the churchyard '' . Related terms |
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