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Definition for: yard

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English

Pronunciation

  • ( UK ): IPA: /jɑːd/ , SAMPA: /jA:d
  • ( US ): AHD: yärd , IPA: /jɑːrd/ , SAMPA: /jA:rd

Etymology

Old English ġeard , from Germanic *garda- , from Indo-European *gher- ‘enclosure’. Cognate with Dutch gaard , German Garten , Swedish gård . The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin hortus , ‘garden’, Russian город , ‘town’. Compare garden .

Noun

Singular
yard

Plural
yards

yard ( plural yards )

  1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
  2. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
  3. ( Jamaican ) One’s house or home.

Translations

land around a house

  • Arabic: حديقة (hadíeqa) f .
  • Chinese: 院子 (yuànzi)
  • Dutch: erf
  • Finnish: piha
  • French: cour f .
  • German: Hof m .
  • Italian: cortile m .
  • Japanese: 庭 (にわ, niwa)
  • Korean: 마당 (madang)
  • Portuguese: cercado m .
  • Russian: двор (dvor) m .
  • Romanian: yard m .
  • Spanish: patio m .
  • Swedish: gård, trädgård, tomt

enclosed area for a specific purpose

Jamaican: one's house or home

Derived terms

See also Yard

  • apple-yard
  • back yard, back-yard, backyard
  • barn-yard, barnyard
  • bone-yard, boneyard
  • brickyard
  • castle yard
  • chapel yard
  • churchyard
  • court-yard, courtyard
  • deer-yard, deeryard
  • dockyard
  • door-yard, dooryard
  • dung-yard
  • farm-yard, farmyard
  • fore-yard
  • front yard
  • graveyard
  • green-yard, greenyard
  • grip-yard
  • hemp-yard
  • hop-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
  • olive-yard
  • ox-yard, oxyard
  • palace yard
  • par-yard
  • poultry-yard
  • press-yard
  • rick-yard
  • rope-yard
  • sale-yard, saleyard
  • schoolyard
  • 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
  • vineyard
  • wood-yard, woodyard

Etymology

Old English ġerd , from West Germanic. Cognate with Dutch gard ‘twig’, German Gerte .

Noun

Singular
yard

Plural
yards

yard ( plural yards )

  1. ( nautical ) A long tapered timber hung by its centre to a mast to which is bent a topsail or squaresail.
  2. ( nautical ) Any spar carried aloft.
  3. A staff, rod or stick.
  4. A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK).
  5. ( US slang ) One-hundred dollars.

Derived terms

Translations

nautical: tapered timber

nautical: any spar carried aloft

staff, rod, stick

  • French: verge f .

three feet

  • French: yard m . , verge f . ( Canadian )

US slang: one-hundred dollars

French

Noun

yard m . ( plural yards )

  1. yard ( unit of length )

Italian

Noun

yard f . ( plural yard )

  1. yard ( unit of length )

Synonyms

Other Translations for "yard"

Braille 6 Dot
Braille 8 Dot
Sign Language Spelling
Morse Codeyard
Hexf9 e1 72 e4
Pig Latinyarday

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