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A yard is an area of land immediately adjacent to one or more buildings. It may be either enclosed or open.[1] The word may come from the same linguistic root as the word garden and has many of the same meanings.
A number of derived words exist, usually tied to a particular usage or building type. Some may be archaic or in lesser use now. Examples of such words are: courtyard, barnyard, hopyard, graveyard, churchyard, brickyard, prison yard, railyard, junkyard, stableyard, and dooryard.[2]
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- ^ "Yard", Random House Dictionary
- ^ "door-yard". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OED/2635459474. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)