Yard (land)

A subdivision backyard (American English)

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]

A yard in a rural town in Germany (Hildesheim Börde)
  1. ^ "Yard", Random House Dictionary
  2. ^ "door-yard". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OED/2635459474. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)