forecourt vs courtyard

forecourt and courtyard both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
forecourt	Yes	No	No	No
courtyard	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, courtyard is a hypernym of forecourt; that is, courtyard is a word with a broader meaning than forecourt:

forecourt: the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings
courtyard: an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings

Other hypernyms of forecourt include court.

forecourt (noun)	courtyard (noun)
the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings	an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings