yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑːd/
enpr: yärd
ipa: /jɑɹd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /jæːɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: yards
form: yaird
form: yeard
form: yerd
form: yod
Etymology: From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).
See also North Frisian guard, Guart (“garden, yard”), Dutch gaard, gaarde (“garden, yard”), German Garten (“garden, yard”), Danish, Swedish gård (“farm, estate, land; court, yard”), Faroese, Icelandic garður (“garden; fence”), Norn gart (“farm”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gard, gård (“farm; townhouse”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (gards, “court, yard; house”), Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”), Serbo-Croatian, Slovene grad (“town”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard (“fence”), Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬵𐬀 (gərədha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit गृह (gṛha, “house, habitation, home, dwelling”)), Medieval Latin gardinus, jardinus (“garden, yard”). Doublet of garden, garth, and gord.
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
synonyms: garden
glosses: The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
examples: text: A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
ref: 1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
text: Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.
ref: 1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:
glosses: An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
glosses: A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
examples: text: Man’s devilish cunt, tell me nutting about friends, that’s dead
Cuz I run up in yards,
No vest, tryna ching man’s chest
And leave him dead
ref: 2020 December 15, “We Paid (Remix)”, performed by #GS28 Goose, 0:15–0:21:
glosses: One’s house or home.
Hyponyms: apple-yard
back yard
back-yard
backyard
barn-yard
barnyard
bone-yard
boneyard
breaker's yard
brickyard
castle yard
chapel yard
churchyard
classification yard
coalyard
court-yard
courtyard
deer-yard
deeryard
dirt yard
dockyard
door-yard
dooryard
dung-yard
farm-yard
farmyard
foreyard
front yard
goods yard
grain yard
graveyard
green-yard
greenyard
grip-yard
hemp-yard
hop-yard
hump yard
inn-yard
innyard
junk-yard
junkyard
kailyard
kaleyard
kirkyard
knacker's yard
liberty of the yard
lumber-yard
lumberyard
marshaling yard
marshalling yard
mast-yard
navy yard
navy-yard
oliveyard
ox-yard
oxyard
palace yard
par-yard
poultry-yard
press-yard
Quakers Yard
railyard
rick-yard
rickyard
rope-yard
sale-yard
saleyard
salvage yard
schoolyard
Scotland Yard
scrapyard
shipyard
show-yard
stable-yard
stack-yard
stackyard
steelyard
stockyard
straw yard
switchyard
tan-yard
tanyard
tenter-yard
tilt-yard
tiltyard
timber-yard
timberyard
tire yard
vinegar-yard
vineyard
Welsh yard
wood-yard
woodyard
wrecker's yard
wrecking yard
wreck yard
yard jockey
yard up
Derived terms: 18-yard box
a yard of pump water
balm yard
church-yard
cross-jack yard
dead yard
do the hard yards
drop yard
fiddle yard
freight yard
get up the yard
go yard
hard yards
horse-yard
hundred-yard stare
inn yard
livery yard
lumber yard
mosque yard
Mughal yard
no yards
pan-yard
rail yard
receiving yard
sail-yard
sale yard
salvage yard
shunting-yard algorithm
six-yard area
switching yard
the whole nine yards
thin as a yard of pump water
thousand-yard stare
timber yard
trap yard
victualling yard
wrecker's yard
wrecking yard
wreck yard
yardage
yard ape
yard arm
yard bird
yardbird
yard-boy
yard broom
yard dart
yard-dike
yard-dog
yard duty
yard-fowl
yard fowl
yardfowl
yardful
yard goat
yard grass
yard-grass
yardhove
yarding
yardland
yard light
yard-long bean
yardman
yardmaster
yard-money
yardperson
yard pilot
yard rope
yard sale
yard slug
yardsman
yardswoman
yard trash day
yard-trash day
yard work
yard-work