Synonyms for yard

Grammar : Noun

Spell : yahrd

Phonetic Transcription : yɑrd

Top 10 synonyms for yard

Other synonyms for the word yard

Définition of yard

Origin : "ground around a house," Old English geard "enclosure, garden, court, house, yard," from Proto-Germanic *garda (cf. Old Norse garðr "enclosure, garden, yard;" Old Frisian garda, Dutch gaard, Old High German garto, German Garten "garden;" Gothic gards "house," garda "stall"), from PIE *gharto-, from root *gher- "to grasp, enclose" (cf. Old English gyrdan "to gird," Sanskrit ghra- "house," Albanian garth "hedge," Latin hortus "garden," Phrygian -gordum "town," Greek khortos "pasture," Old Irish gort "field," Breton garz "enclosure, garden," and second element in Latin cohors "enclosure, yard, company of soldiers, multitude").
Lithuanian gardas "pen, enclosure," Old Church Slavonic gradu "town, city," and Russian gorod, -grad "town, city" belong to this group, but linguists dispute whether they are independent developments or borrowings from Germanic. Yard sale is attested by 1976. Middle English yerd "yard-land" (mid-15c.) was a measure of about 30 acres.

noun grassy area around a structure

Example sentences :

Just then Ben Haley, looking from the window, saw some chickens in the yard.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

But when K., growing uneasy, came out into the yard, the engine had started at last.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Seeing the crowd, Wilson drove directly to the yard and parked his machine.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

And if I had seen a sheet flying around the yard I would have picked it up.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

But I has not a man in the yard as can ride since Will died.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I did not know you had been in a yard before—says you were the pet at Elmore's in London.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

He swung himself on—near—near—nearer—a yard from the parapet.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

His crops were taken from his field, and his cattle from his yard.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

We do here in Albany; rather, I'm going to have one in my yard.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

Four horses, that had been only fourteen miles, had just re-entered the yard.
Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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