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From kirk + yard. Cognate with Danish kirkegård, Faroese kirkjugarður, Icelandic kirkjugarður, Norwegian Bokmål kirkegård, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkjegård, and Swedish kyrkogård.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
kirkyard
Today it means: A churchyard, especially one in Scotland. Full definition →