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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1552 a court or enclosure adjacent to a building (as a house or palace)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. an area enclosed by walls or buildings, often opening off a street.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(courtyards) A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls. They walked through the arch and into the cobbled courtyard. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Court, quadrangle, inclosed area.

Moby Thesaurus

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