yard
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1.0
- noun
- /jɑrd/
:
patio
- The dog happily chased its ball around the spacious yard.
- front yard
- residential yard
- yard waste
It it forces them into my neighbor's yard underground.
- It it forces them into my neighbor's yard underground.
- OK, here's a yard sign that I found funny.
- And he says my glass table in my yard broke from golf balls.
- We run up in someone's yard for what we thought was drugs.
- He's got a deployment patch of my front yard on his shoulder.
- Nothing gets the boys coming to the yard like quiche.
- You can't just have a damn stale yard and there's nothing out there.
- No, I just shit in your yard, home, all alone.
Examples
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Here we are walking through the yard as the green leaves reappear.
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I point at a cat prowling the yard, and he stares at my finger.
Academic text (2011) -
We run around the yard, up and back and up and back.
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Remember when I took over the yard after Dad died?
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Oh, wow, that really made the yard look enormous.
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Momma put us in the front yard and said, "You two wild things, fight it out here."
Academic text (2015) -
I saw somebody standing in Mr. Riddle's back yard.
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Wow, your yard is the perfect size, and there's plenty of access from the back alley.
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My mother has feeders around the yard, so sometimes when there's nothing better to do.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then, abruptly, in the neighboring house across the yard, someone began tuning a violin.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
An area of land next to a house where people grow flowers or vegetables
464
1.0
An area of short grass in a garden or park
451
1.0
An area of land behind a house used for play and gardening
150
2.0
The land around a building that belongs to it, often with gardens
99
2.2
An open area inside buildings, often like the space in a house or castle
11
3.0
A small piece of ground for growing plants or building on
9
9.9
A small garden next to a house or church
5
1.7
An open area next to farm buildings where farmers keep animals and tools
3
2.8
An area of land used for something, like a garden or park
3
7.9
An area just outside a house door where people walk and plant things
The land around a house that belongs to it and is often enclosed
Compounds
- US
58
3.4
A marked line on a football field showing how many yards the ball is from the nearest goal line
- US
4
2.6
A measure of space equal to a cube one yard on each side, used for soil or gravel
- UK
1
3.8
A place with many train tracks where train engines and cars are kept and fixed
- Archaic
1
9.9
A long horizontal pole high on a sailing ship mast that holds the highest sail
A historic navy shipyard in Boston where the warship Constitution is anchored
- Specialized
A long horizontal pole high on a sailing ship that holds the topgallant sail
- Specialized
A long horizontal pole high on a sailing ship that holds the sail above the topsail
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yard comes from an old English word geard meaning 'enclosure' or 'fenced space', and it is the same root as garden, so imagine a small kept area next to a house for animals or storage. That's why a yard today is the land next to a building, often enclosed.