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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
courtyard
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ The extension is built around a central courtyard which enables ventilation as an alternative to air conditioning at a much lower cost.
▪ The new station will have a central courtyard, which will be landscaped, plus a prisoners' exercise yard.
cobbled
▪ London's most famous riverside pub with a flagstone floor, a cobbled courtyard and great views.
▪ There was no phone number listed for the old seminary that opened on to a cobbled courtyard above the Praia Grande.
▪ They walked through the barbican of the Rorim into the cobbled courtyard beyond.
▪ Two great doors stood open in an arched entrance and they came out into a cobbled courtyard.
▪ Its cobbled courtyard and centrepiece - the thirteenth-century Knights' Hall - are open to the public.
▪ Lunch could be had in the inn's cobbled courtyard.
▪ The car rocked to a standstill in the walled and cobbled courtyard, outside the modern red-brick Stanford Park Hotel.
inner
▪ In half an hour a dozen or so cars would drive into the inner courtyard and the morning shift would take over.
▪ In the inner courtyard around the altar were the women and children and one man, the old King.
▪ Amid apologies, he was ushered in, and led to a familiar inner courtyard to wait.
▪ There is a high, upper gallery that encircles the inner courtyard of the main house.
▪ The original cloisters are now a charming, shady walkway around an inner courtyard, the monks' cells now luxurious bedrooms.
▪ They agreed that they must seal off this inner courtyard and all within it, and sift through the trapped folk.
large
▪ At King Saud Mosque, Jeddah, we covered a large courtyard with an opening lightweight metal roof.
▪ The lane had opened out into a large paved courtyard.
▪ The large courtyard building, mentioned above, was never completed.
▪ The two offices faced each other across a large internal courtyard entered through low archways from Downing Street and Charles Street.
▪ This third and largest courtyard, St George's Square, is in a uniform neo-Classical style by Pacassi.
▪ The first, and larger courtyard, is the Archbishop's Court, but the smaller Canon's Court is the better.
little
▪ Slowly Shelley started the engine again, and drove the jeep into the little paved courtyard.
▪ The noise was deafening as we reached the little courtyard and stooped to enter the main room of the temple.
▪ The sports program was intramural softball in a little courtyard.
small
▪ High railings guarded the small courtyard gardens, the gates of which were usually protected by push-button security-code entry locks.
▪ The parlour opens into a small courtyard, where there is constant activity.
▪ At the far end was a place where the backs of four high buildings came together to form a small courtyard.
▪ I was in a small courtyard where the animals were kept at night.
▪ There is a small, garden courtyard.
▪ Following the service, she is the center of attention in the small courtyard that abuts the church.
▪ There are three windows on the side of the house, which look down on to a small courtyard.
▪ Jenna pulled up in the small courtyard and sat for a moment looking at it.
■ VERB
build
▪ The extension is built around a central courtyard which enables ventilation as an alternative to air conditioning at a much lower cost.
▪ The palazzo is built around a courtyard with a truncated tower at its base.
enter
▪ As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea, lashing against the car and obliterating everything.
▪ I was visible for a sweep of sixty degrees and anyone entering the courtyard would get a full view.
▪ Making her way through large hooked-back wooden doors, she entered yet another courtyard.
▪ Finally, after failing to wake anyone at the third home, I entered the courtyard anyway and disrobed at the well.
▪ They are entering the courtyard, walking toward the door.
look
▪ She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard.
▪ I stood before the gate awhile and looked into the courtyard, breathing in garbage and sewer odors and another indescribable smell.
▪ Sarella looked down into the courtyard where Peter was busily taking off his skis.
▪ Not realising how clearly she could be seen against the light, she looked down into the courtyard.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our hotel room faced out on to a lovely courtyard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And on the evening of December 9, there is jazz in the museum courtyard.
▪ In the courtyard is the Madonna of the Mouse, so called because of the mouse sitting on the shoulder of the baby.
▪ She heads across the courtyard towards casita 6.
▪ Suddenly patches of pink sandstone were again visible in the courtyard.
▪ The Glen-Gery New York offices are in a nineteenth-century brick house, overlooking a tree-shaded courtyard.
▪ The scene in the courtyard was one of utter devastation.
▪ They walked through the barbican of the Rorim into the cobbled courtyard beyond.
▪ Thus, their solicitor drew up a document detailing joint responsibility for communal maintenance of roofs, courtyards and external paintwork.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Courtyard

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
courtyard

1550s, from court (n.) + yard (n.1).

Wiktionary
courtyard

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

WordNet
courtyard

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

Wikipedia
Courtyard

A courtyard or court is an enclosed area, often surrounded by a building or complex, that is open to the sky. Such spaces in inns and public buildings were often the primary meeting places for some purposes, leading to the other meanings of court. Both of the words court and yard derive from the same root, meaning an enclosed space. See yard and garden for the relation of this set of words.

Courtyard (disambiguation)
  • Courtyard
  • Courtyard by Marriott
  • Courtyard house
  • Courtyard housing
  • Courtyard (solitaire)
  • Courtyard Theatre
  • Courtyard Theatre, London
  • Courtyard, Hereford
  • Courtyard Crisis
  • Alan Moore's The Courtyard
  • Courtyard Shopping Centre
Courtyard (1931 film)

Courtyard (Italian: Cortile) is a 1931 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Augusto Contardi, Dria Paola and Ettore Petrolini. It was the director's first sound film, and was made after he returned from working in South America for several years.

It was made at the Cines Studios in Rome.

Usage examples of "courtyard".

No larger than I, she was like a fragile doll on whose neck had been set, most incongruously, the large head of Cyrus, the curve to whose Achaemenid nose so resembled that of a rooster I had got to know in our courtyard that I almost expected to see nostrils like slits set atop the bridge.

But the man in the courtyard had been middle-aged, while this fellow was barely more than an boy, slender and graceful, though not --it was obvious to Ahl -- entirely sober at the moment.

THOUGH life in the courtyard of the Lady Aiee might have luxurious outer trappings, it was not, Ray discovered, an idle one for any of them.

There were also courtyards, kivas, and well-preserved ladders that had once allowed the Anasazi to climb easily from one level of the city to another.

Twenty more of the same sort came boiling out of the courtyard and ran toward Anda and his aides.

Only the beautiful were allowed in Lindinis, and in its arcaded courtyards Guinevere assembled statues from villas and shrines throughout Dumnonia.

More Archai than even Garric could have counted stood around the edge of the courtyard and looked down from the surrounding wall.

He unlocked an outer door and went through an archlike hallway that led him to a tiny courtyard.

Running through the halls of the headquarters, he led his entourage--which still included Bryce Babcock and the former President-into the courtyard on the far side of the building.

Ashland, the Elizabethan and the Bowmer, share a common courtyard and also a common backstage area.

He fired and the ball took Barker under the chin, and then a musket banged from the courtyard and tore a splinter from the balustrade beside Sharpe.

Tins of blazing pitch were rolling about the courtyard, close to the barrier, but before falling they had struck the piled mattresses and furniture, splashing fire and trickles of flame poured over the old bedticking, and upholstered chairs from the dining-room.

They led him out into a small courtyard and through another door into a larger enclosure, around whose walls were seated a hundred or more Beja warriors.

Bloody and belabored, the woman was riven with a pike and pitched off the ramp to crash in the courtyard like a bag of laundry.

With twelve sonorous, resounding strokes, the great Bell of the Benedictine Church of Saint Denys, in the courtyard of Castle Cherbourg, sounded the hour of midnight.