A comparatively small uncultivated area attached to a house or other building or enclosed by it; esp. such an area surrounded by walls or…

Premises belonging to a house, farmstead, etc., situated behind the main building, including gardens, fields, outbuildings, etc.; a backyard. Chiefly…

A site for a building; the land on which a building stands; also, an enclosure attached to a building, a yard. (Cf. farmstead, n., homestead, n., mow…

an outlying yard; (Bee-keeping) a site for hives away from the main hive.

Originally and chiefly North American. A piece of land to the back or front of a house or other building; a garden or yard. Cf. back lot, n. 1.

A yard or enclosure at the back of a house. Also figurative.

(a) U.S. A place into which something is released; spec. a pasture for cattle. Now rare. (b) English regional (Cheshire). A field, yard, or other…

spec. A sunken court giving access to the basement of a house, separated from the pavement by railings, with a flight of steps providing access. Cf…

A piece of land behind a house or other building, a backyard. Also: a piece of wasteland between built-up areas in a town or city.

A back yard. (Chiefly in s.w.)

A yard or garden-patch about the door of a house.

A piece of ground or garden in front of a house.

= backyard, n.

(a) (U.S.) the yard of a tenement building; (b) (esp. in Jamaica and Guyana) an area of land with multiple small, poor-quality houses that have…

An area where people can sit outside; a conservatory, gazebo, etc.