Courtyard

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Courtyard \Court"yard\ (k?rt"y?rd`), n.
     A court or inclosure attached to a house.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  courtyard
       n : a yard wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings;
           "the house was built around an inner court" [syn: {court}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "courtyard":
     arena, cincture, close, confine, container, coop, court, curtilage,
     delimited field, enclave, enclosure, field, fold, ground, list,
     pale, paling, park, pen, quad, quadrangle, square, theater, toft,
     yard