Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A yard at the rear of a house.
Wiktionary
- n. A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
- n. colloquial A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
- n. colloquial An area nearby to a country or other jurisidiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the grounds in back of a house
Examples
“The term backyard can be variously defined as a neighborhood or local community, local government area, a city or even a state.”
“For me, the backyard is the planet and our entire approach to sustainability.”
“You said our backyard is a private space unless we have company, but Carly isn't company said Gillam.”
“You have every U.S. hedge fund and private-equity fund playing in what we call our backyard in Asia," he added.”
“Yes, it's in my "backyard", but that backyard is an hour away.”
“It's pretty nuts - we're in Warren and our backyard is completely flooded - my friend has 14 of water in her basement and I just got back from helping her hook up an old pool pump to suck it out.”
“And that backyard is amazing …. that is as big as our whole town!”
“This buck in my backyard is sporting the beginnings of some velvet clad antlers”
“Plus, the lots are mostly on the top of a ridge so that your backyard is completely private, a wooded, quick descent that you can't build on.”
“Hannah in Canada celebrates that her backyard is no longer covered in snow.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘backyard’.
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back phrases/hyphens/compounds
backache to backyard
back-ache, back-aching, back-acter, back-acting, back-answer, back-bar, back-basket, back beat, back-bias, back-blast, back-blowing, back-boiler and 342 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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Front and Back
backchat, backbone, backpack, backhoe, backfire, backhanded, breakfront, beachfront, drawback, effrontery, frontier, switchback and 196 more...
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OM2 Lesson 16
cookout, backyard, skewer, shish kebab, anyone, grill, hot, sheep, lamb, nobody, mistaken, somebody and 23 more...
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isn't that cute
pattern, purr, humor, echo, bamboo, ripple, tea, postcard, unicorn, caramel, origami, onion and 43 more...
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TN9 Lesson 105
dig, backyard, bury, detective, mystery, solve, vegetable garden, plant, Sherlock Holmes, honk, complain, to drive someone ... and 10 more...
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