[
US
/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/
]
[ UK /kˈɔːtjɑːd/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔːtjɑːd/ ]
NOUN
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an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
the house was built around an inner court
How To Use courtyard In A Sentence
- Ivaric raced down to the stables, shouted at a groom to saddle his grey horse Maila, and smiled as he saw his father sitting in a shady arbour at one end of the courtyard, looking thoughtful.
- He called the grooms, and we made ready, taking the horses out to where the folk of the archbishop waited in the sunny courtyard, and there leaving them. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
- A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
- Thousands of people can live in a hutong which is made up of hundreds of quadrangular courtyards each surrounded by four homes.
- Then she went to the window and threw it open, looking down with despair at the six-storey drop to the courtyard below. TREASON KEEP
- He spends his eight weeks of rehabilitation watching the lives across the courtyard behind his Greenwich Village apartment.
- Gunmen also torched a van parked in the courtyard, as well as a large toolshed.
- The main focus for improvement was the school's internal courtyard, a new sandpit with cover, a revamped pond changed into a herb garden and the creation of play and quiet areas.
- She took a long drink of water, swallowing it slowly as she looked around the courtyard.
- Baths were taken in tubs and emptied after use on shrubs in the courtyard.