schoolyard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++school·yard /ˈskuːljɑːd $ -jɑːrd/ noun [countable] especially American English the area next to a school building where the children can go or play when they are not having lessons 〔学校的〕操场,运动场 SYN playground
Examples from the Corpus
schoolyard• He grabbed hold of the chainlink fence that surrounded the empty schoolyard.• The contractor had bought and planted six small trees for the schoolyard.• Scholars, old and new, stood in the schoolyard that bright autumnal morning.• The schoolyard was a mud patch tapering into a ravine.school·yard nounChineseSyllable
next school a building to the area Corpus where
schoolyard
school‧yard /ˈskuːljɑːd $ -jɑːrd/
noun [countable] especially American English
the area next to a school building where the children can go or play when they are not having lessons
SYN playground
school‧yard /ˈskuːljɑːd $ -jɑːrd/
noun [countable] especially American Englishthe area next to a school building where the children can go or play when they are not having lessons
SYN playground