yard

Meaning

Noun

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
2. (Australia, Canada, US) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
3. An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
4. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
5. (Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English) One’s house or home.

Verb

To confine to a yard.

Verb

To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

Synonyms

courtyard

court

garden

enclosure

lawn

field

patio

playground

ground

compound

pen

🖊️

cubic yard

curtilage

railyard

railway yard

grounds

area

depot

green

corral

fold

backyard

marshalling yard

fence

Y

yd

pound

💷

quadrangle

marshalling yard

pace

paddock

dock

district

buildings

demesne

brutish

beat

brute

gate

course

brutal

baton

garth

forecourt

boom

💥

fencing

compass

🧭

grand

farmyard

code

Translations

cour

Hof

cortile

patio

yarda

iarda

ra

yard

vergue

erf

Yard

jardin

pennone

hof

yard

Pronounced as (IPA)

/jɑːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: yerd

Inherited from Old English: ġeard

Cognate with Dutch: gaard

Cognate with German: Garten

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: gård

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: gard

Inherited from Middle English: ȝerde

Cognate with Dutch: gard

Cognate with German: Gerte

In summary

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.

Sentences

A disused freight yard is located south of the station .