Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
Source: tatoeba (1818)
Yard
//jɑːd//
Synonyms for "yard" (289 found)
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Closest matches (58)
Strong matches (87)
Noun(24 words)
coreycrankcubic yardcurtilagediddlyding dongding-a-lingding-dongdingerdingusdirkdobberdongerdorkellfire hosefuckrodggardengrand
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corralcourtcreamerycubic yardcurtilagedairydefense plantdelimited fielddimedistillerydockyarddollardollar billellencircleenclaveencloseenclosureencompassenshrine
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factoryfactory beltfactory districtfeeder plantfence infieldfifty centsfinfishfive centsfive hundred dollarsfive-dollar billfive-hundred-dollar billfive-spotfiverflour millfoldfour bitsfrogskingg-notegaolgardengrandgroundhalf a chalf dollarhalf ghalf grandhangerhedge inhem inhookhousehouse inhundredhundred-dollar billimpoundimprisonincarcerateincludeindustrial parkindustrial zone
Related words (144)
iron manjailkennelkilokilocyclekilogramkilohertzkiloliterkilometerlakhleaguerlistmmain plantmanufactorymanufacturing plantmanufacturing quartermastmeasuremew
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mew upmillmillenniummillepedemilliardmilligrammillilitermintmunitions plantmyriadnickelnumberoil refineryone hundred thousandpacking housepalepalingparkpenpen inpennyplantpocketpotterypoundpower plantproduction linepudendum virilepush-button plantquadquadranglequarantinequartquarterrail inred centrefineryrodroodsawbucksawmillshipyardshrineshut inshut upsilver dollarskinsmackersparsquarestablesubassembly plantsugar refinerysurroundsuspendertanneryten centsten thousandten-spottennertheaterthouthousand dollarsthousand-dollar billtofttwenty-dollar billtwenty-five centstwo bitstwo-dollar billtwo-spotvirgatewall inwinerywrapyard upyards
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More general
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
More specific
102 entriesShowing 16 of 102 words.
Synonyms
9 entriesat location
10 entriescapable of
2 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
134 entriesShowing 16 of 134 words.
has context
6 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
part of
5 entriesrelated to
86 entriesShowing 16 of 86 words.
used for
34 entriesShowing 16 of 34 words.
Translations
216 translations across 79 languages.
Albanian
4 entries- bahçe noun (land around a house)
- gardh noun (land around a house)
- gardh noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
- kurt noun (land around a house)
Arabic
3 entries- حَدِيقَة noun (land around a house)
- يَارْد noun (three feet)
- يَارْدَة noun (three feet)
Armenian
2 entries- բակ noun (land around a house)
- յարդ noun (three feet)
Aromanian
1 entries- curti noun (land around a house)
Asturian
2 entries- antoxana noun (land around a house)
- portalada noun (land around a house)
Bavarian German
1 entries- Huaf noun (land around a house)
Belarusian
3 entries- дво́рык noun (land around a house)
- двор noun (land around a house)
- ярд noun (three feet)
Bengali
1 entries- গজ noun (three feet)
Bulgarian
4 entries- банкнота от 100 долара noun (slang: one hundred units of currency)
- двор noun (land around a house)
- депо noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
- прът noun (staff, rod, stick)
Burmese
4 entries- ကိုက် noun (three feet)
- ယာဒ် noun (three feet)
- ဝင်းခြံ noun (land around a house)
- အိမ်ဝင်း noun (land around a house)
Catalan
3 entries- iarda noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- iarda noun (three feet)
- pati noun (land around a house)
Chechen
1 entries- керт noun (land around a house)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏑᏟᎶᏛ noun (three feet)
Chickasaw
2 entries- kasbi noun (land around a house)
- kasbi noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 庭院 noun (land around a house)
- 碼 /码 noun (three feet)
- 院子 noun (land around a house)
Coptic
2 entries- ⲟⲛϩ noun (land around a house)
- ⲟⲛϩ noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
Cornish
1 entries- lath noun (three feet)
Czech
4 entries- dvorek noun (land around a house)
- dvůr noun (land around a house)
- ráhno noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- yard noun (three feet)
Danish
2 entries- gård noun (land around a house)
- gård noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
Dutch
2 entries- erf noun (land around a house)
- ra noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
Esperanto
4 entries- jardo noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- jardo noun (nautical: any spar carried aloft)
- jardo noun (three feet)
- korto noun (land around a house)
Estonian
2 entries- jard noun (three feet)
- õu noun (land around a house)
Ewe
1 entries- abɔ noun (three feet)
Finnish
4 entries- huntti noun (slang: one hundred units of currency)
- jaardi noun (three feet)
- piha noun (land around a house)
- piha noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
French
4 entries- cour noun (land around a house)
- jardin noun (land around a house)
- verge noun (staff, rod, stick)
- verge noun (three feet)
Galician
4 entries- cercado noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
- eido noun (land around a house)
- eira noun (land around a house)
- quinteiro noun (land around a house)
Georgian
2 entries- ეზო noun (land around a house)
- იარდი noun (three feet)
German
4 entries- Yard name ((New) Scotland Yard)
- Hof noun (land around a house)
- Rah noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- Stab noun (staff, rod, stick)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 noun (land around a house)
Greek
3 entries- αυλή noun (land around a house)
- γιάρδα noun (three feet)
- προαύλιο noun (land around a house)
Hebrew
2 entries- חָצֵר noun (land around a house)
- סְקַרְיָה noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
Hindi
2 entries- गज़ noun (three feet)
- बाड़ा noun (land around a house)
Hungarian
4 entries- bot noun (staff, rod, stick)
- előkert noun (land around a house)
- keresztvitorlarúd noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- kert noun (land around a house)
Ingrian
2 entries- tarha noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
- tarhas noun (land around a house)
Irish
4 entries- cleith noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- clós noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
- slat noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- slat noun (staff, rod, stick)
Italian
3 entries- cortile noun (land around a house)
- iarda noun (three feet)
- yard noun (three feet)
Japanese
4 entries- ヤード noun (three feet)
- 帆桁 noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- 庭 noun (land around a house)
- 碼 noun (three feet)
Kazakh
1 entries- ярд noun (three feet)
Khmer
2 entries- ទីធ្លា noun (land around a house)
- យ៉ាដ noun (three feet)
Korean
4 entries- 뜰 noun (land around a house)
- 마 noun (three feet)
- 마당 noun (land around a house)
- 야드 noun (three feet)
Latin
1 entries- ārea noun (land around a house)
Latvian
1 entries- pagalms noun (land around a house)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kiemas noun (land around a house)
Macedonian
1 entries- двор noun (land around a house)
Malay
1 entries- ela noun (three feet)
Norman
2 entries- bel noun (land around a house)
- bel noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- hewş noun (land around a house)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- gård noun (land around a house)
- yard noun (three feet)
Occitan
1 entries- pati noun (land around a house)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آولی noun (land around a house)
Papiamentu
1 entries- curá noun (land around a house)
Persian
3 entries- حیاط noun (land around a house)
- دکل noun (nautical: any spar carried aloft)
- یارد noun (three feet)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Hoff (nds) noun (land around a house)
Polish
4 entries- jard noun (three feet)
- podwórko noun (land around a house)
- podwórze noun (land around a house)
- reja noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
Pontic Greek
1 entries- αυλαία noun (land around a house)
Portuguese
4 entries- cercado noun (land around a house)
- jarda noun (three feet)
- pátio noun (land around a house)
- quintal noun (land around a house)
Romanian
2 entries- curte noun (land around a house)
- vergă noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
Russian
4 entries- дво́рик noun (land around a house)
- двор noun (land around a house)
- ре́я noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- ярд noun (three feet)
Sardinian
1 entries- apitu noun (land around a house)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dvòrīšte noun (land around a house)
- àvlija noun (land around a house)
- а̀влија noun (land around a house)
- дво̀рӣште noun (land around a house)
Slovak
1 entries- dvor noun (land around a house)
Slovene
1 entries- dvorišče noun (land around a house)
Southern Altai
1 entries- тӱнӱк noun (land around a house)
Spanish
4 entries- patio noun (land around a house)
- vara noun (staff, rod, stick)
- vara noun (three feet)
- verga noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
Swahili
1 entries- yadi noun (three feet)
Swedish
4 entries- gård noun (land around a house)
- rå noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- tomt noun (land around a house)
- trädgård noun (land around a house)
Tagalog
1 entries- yarda noun (three feet)
Telugu
1 entries- గజం noun (three feet)
Thai
3 entries- ลาน noun (land around a house)
- สนาม noun (land around a house)
- หลา noun (three feet)
Turkish
3 entries- avlu noun (land around a house)
- seren noun (nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- yarda noun (three feet)
Tày
2 entries- cai noun (land around a house)
- coo̱ng noun (land around a house)
Ukrainian
4 entries- дво́рик noun (land around a house)
- двір noun (land around a house)
- подві́р'я noun (land around a house)
- ярд noun (three feet)
Urdu
1 entries- گز noun (three feet)
Uzbek
1 entries- yard noun (three feet)
Vietnamese
4 entries- sân noun (land around a house)
- sân noun (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
- thước Anh noun (three feet)
- yard noun (three feet)
Volapük
1 entries- yad noun (land around a house)
Walloon
1 entries- coû noun (land around a house)
Welsh
3 entries- llath noun (three feet)
- llathau noun (three feet)
- llathen noun (three feet)
Zazaki
2 entries- isig noun (land around a house)
- yarda noun (three feet)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
I always have to check my yard for stagnant pools of water so mosquitoes don't breed there.
Source: tatoeba (1990)
Didn't you see a dog pass through the yard?
Source: tatoeba (16172)
Feeling the house shake, I ran out into the yard at the back of the house.
Source: tatoeba (24274)
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