the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.
an enclosed area outdoors, often paved and surrounded by or adjacent to a building; court.
ballpark: It’s been a long road trip for the Mariners, and they’ll be glad to get back to their own yard on Tuesday.
an outdoor enclosure designed for the exercise of students, inmates, etc.: a prison yard.
an outdoor space surrounded by a group of buildings, as on a college campus.
a pen or other enclosure for livestock.
an enclosure within which any work or business is carried on (often used in combination): navy yard; a brickyard.
an outside area used for storage, assembly, or the like.
Railroads. a system of parallel tracks, crossovers, switches, etc., where cars are switched and made up into trains and where cars, locomotives, and other rolling stock are kept when not in use or when awaiting repairs.
a piece of ground set aside for cultivation; garden; field.
the winter pasture or browsing ground of moose and deer.
the Yard,British. Scotland Yard (def. 2).
verb (used with object)
to put into, enclose, or store in a yard.
Origin of yard
2
First recorded before 900; Middle English yerd, Old English geard “enclosure”; cognate with Dutch gaard “garden,” Old Norse garthr “yard,” Gothic gards “house,” Latin hortus “garden,” Greek chórtos “enclosure, court,” Old Irish gort “field,” Slavic (Polish) gród “castle, town”; akin to garden,garth
Others munch on the berries and other fruits that people grow in their yards.
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Then, as now, development regulations in the city placed standalone homes with their own yards — and the residents who could afford them — above all else.
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It means someone went out and put a bunch of yard signs out.
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Parker writes of the “black-faced doe” that he sees in the yard in his new Texas house.
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Just right for that person who needs a little creative push to do something daring in their yard.
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Later that day he made a call from the row of phones in the yard and reached his wife for the first time in six months.
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The victim was himself dangerous, and also the strongest man in the yard.
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Scotland Yard released a video of the extraordinary crime in an appeal for anyone who recognizes the man to come forward.
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Dr. Knox, then going off on foot to see a patient, came across the yard from the surgery at the same moment.
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"You had no business to escape into our yard," said the girl.
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He lifted a stone, evidently with his mouth, ran a yard or two with it, and then dropped it with a great clatter.
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Near the top of this hill was a gate, which led into a farmer's yard.
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There was one venerable sergeant who made a rod less than a yard long.
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British Dictionary definitions for yard (1 of 3)
yard1
/ (jɑːd) /
noun
a unit of length equal to 3 feet and defined in 1963 as exactly 0.9144 metreAbbreviation: yd
a cylindrical wooden or hollow metal spar, tapered at the ends, slung from a mast of a square-rigged or lateen-rigged vessel and used for suspending a sail
short for yardstick (def. 2)
put in the hard yardsAustralianinformalto make a great effort to achieve an end
the whole nine yardsinformaleverything that is required; the whole thing
Word Origin for yard
Old English gierd rod, twig; related to Old Frisian jerde, Old Saxon gerdia, Old High German gertia, Old Norse gaddr
British Dictionary definitions for yard (2 of 3)
yard2
/ (jɑːd) /
noun
a piece of enclosed ground, usually either paved or laid with concrete and often adjoining or surrounded by a building or buildings
an enclosed or open area used for some commercial activity, for storage, etca railway yard
(in combination)a brickyard; a shipyard
a US and Canadian word for garden (def. 1)
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings, used for storing rolling stock, making up trains, etc
US and Canadianthe winter pasture of deer, moose, and similar animals
Australian and NZan enclosed area used to draw off part of a herd, etc
NZ short for saleyard, stockyard
verb(tr)
to draft (animals), esp to a saleyard
Word Origin for yard
Old English geard; related to Old Saxon gard, Old High German gart, Old Norse garthr yard, Gothic gards house, Old Slavonic gradu town, castle, Albanian garth hedge