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Synonyms for yard

Grammar : Noun
Spell : yahrd
Phonetic Transcription : yɑrd

Top 10 synonyms for yard
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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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