schoolyard
校庭
解説 Definition
学校内の屋外の地面。生徒が遊んだり体操をしたりする校舎の外のスペースです。
A schoolyard is the outdoor area of a school where students can play, gather, or spend time during breaks. It often includes open space, playground equipment, or sports areas. The word is mainly used for elementary and secondary schools.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
school + yard にそのまま分けて覚えるのが最短です。yard は backyard, front yard の yard と同じで、「建物に付属する屋外スペース」。つまり schoolyard は「学校に付いた外の場所」から校庭と取れます。playground も近い語ですが、遊具のある遊び場寄りなのに対し、schoolyard は学校の外庭・校庭全体を指す感じ。in the schoolyard, children running around in the schoolyard の情景と一緒に覚えると定着しやすいです。
This word is easy to remember because it is simply `school` + `yard`. Think of `yard` as the outdoor space around a building, like `backyard` or `front yard`. That makes `schoolyard` easy to picture: children running outside at school.
例文
Children played in the schoolyard during recess.
子どもたちは休み時間に校庭で遊びました。
The schoolyard was covered with snow.
校庭は雪に覆われていました。
The school organized a sports event in the schoolyard.
学校は校庭で運動会を開きました。
schoolyard の類義語・関連語
schoolyard の語源・成り立ち Etymology
schoolyard は school と yard の複合語で、school はギリシャ語 skhole、yard は古英語 geard にさかのぼります。skhole は本来「余暇」でしたが学びの場となり、yard は囲われた場所です。関連語に scholar、garden があります。
Schoolyard is a compound of school and yard. School comes from Greek skhole, which originally meant "leisure" and later came to mean study and teaching, while yard comes from Old English geard, meaning an enclosed space. Together they literally meant the enclosed ground belonging to a place of learning; scholar and garden are related words.
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