courtyard
noun
court·yard
ˈkȯrt-ˌyärd 
: a court or enclosure adjacent to a building (such as a house or palace)
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The apartment overlooks a courtyard.
a series of lunchtime concerts in the museum's open-air courtyard
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The loft building is to be used for apartments and the industrial building for residential amenities, like a community center and courtyard, a Brinshore representative said.
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Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
The guests stand frozen in the courtyard of the guest villa as tonight’s wail is swallowed by the roar of the helicopters above.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Although early games like Mortal Kombat allowed players to interact and sometimes kill opponents with stage hazards, in Tekken, there’s a special kind of attention paid to the level of detail when an enemy gets viscerally kicked through a plate glass wall into a courtyard a full story down.
—Veerender Jubbal, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
Al Jazeera reported that hundreds of people rushed to the courtyard of a Khan Younis hospital to greet the prisoners.
—NBC News, 30 Jan. 2025
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Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
The guests stand frozen in the courtyard of the guest villa as tonight’s wail is swallowed by the roar of the helicopters above.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Although early games like Mortal Kombat allowed players to interact and sometimes kill opponents with stage hazards, in Tekken, there’s a special kind of attention paid to the level of detail when an enemy gets viscerally kicked through a plate glass wall into a courtyard a full story down.
—Veerender Jubbal, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
Al Jazeera reported that hundreds of people rushed to the courtyard of a Khan Younis hospital to greet the prisoners.
—NBC News, 30 Jan. 2025
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courtyard
noun
court·yard
-ˌyärd
: a court or enclosure next to a building
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