courtyard

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

courtyard
    n 1: an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings;
         "the house was built around an inner court" [syn: {court},
         {courtyard}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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