Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

Verb

The word "yard" can be used as noun, proper noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

back of house city house housing development michigan neighborhood outside property subdivision three feet

Capable Of

dry out after rain equal three feet

Defined As

open space around house

Derived Terms

18-yard box 18-yard line 440-yard dash Burnt Yards Hobbys Yards Mughal yard Yardie a yard of pump water all wool and a yard wide balm yard by the yard church-yard clay yard cloth yard cloth-yard cross-jack yard cubic yard dead yard deer yard do the hard yards drop yard fiddle yard fore-yard foreyard freight yard get up the yard go yard golden yard hard yards horse-yard hundred-yard stare inn yard jackyard livery yard lumber yard main yard main-yard mast-yard meteyard mizen yard mizen-yard mizzen yard mizzen-yard mosque yard no yards pan-yard rail yard receiving yard royal yardman sail-yard sailyard sale yard salvage yard shunting-yard algorithm six-yard area six-yard box square yard steelyard switching yard the whole nine yards thin as a yard of pump water thousand-yard stare timber yard trap yard under the yard upper yardman victualling yard whole nine yards wreck yard wrecker's yard wrecking yard yard ape yard arm yard bird yard broom yard dart yard duty yard fowl yard goat yard goods yard grass yard jockey yard light yard of ale yard of clay yard of land yard of lime yard of mortar yard of satin yard of stone yard of tin yard out yard pilot yard rope yard sale yard slug yard trash day yard work yard-arm yard-boy yard-coal yard-dike yard-dog yard-fell yard-fowl yard-grass yard-long yard-long bean yard-measure yard-money yard-rope yard-seam yard-stick yard-trash day yard-wand yard-work yardage yardarita yardarm yardbird yarded yardel yardfowl yardful yardhove yarding yardland yardman yardmaster yardperson yardsman yardstick yardswoman yardwand

Context

finance jamaica medical nautical slang us

Has Property

landscaped

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

capacity measure capacity unit cubage unit cubature unit cubic content unit cubic measure displacement unit enclosure field large integer linear measure linear unit parcel parcel of land piece of ground piece of land spar tract virgate volume unit

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Paling Yards Quakers Yard Scotland Yard Welsh yard apple-yard back yard back-yard backyard barn-yard barnyard bone-yard boneyard breaker's yard brickyard castle yard chapel yard churchyard classification yard coalyard court-yard courtyard deer-yard deeryard dirt yard dockyard door-yard dooryard dung-yard farm-yard farmyard foreyard front yard goods yard grain yard graveyard green-yard greenyard grip-yard hemp-yard hop-yard hump yard inn-yard innyard junk-yard junkyard kailyard kaleyard kirkyard knacker's yard liberty of the yard lumber-yard lumberyard marshaling yard marshalling yard mast-yard moose yard mooseyard navy yard navy-yard oliveyard ox-yard oxyard palace yard par-yard poultry-yard press-yard railyard rick-yard rickyard rope-yard sale-yard saleyard salvage yard schoolyard scrapyard shipyard show-yard stable-yard stack-yard stackyard steelyard stockyard straw yard switchyard tan-yard tanyard tenter-yard tilt-yard tiltyard timber-yard timberyard tire yard vinegar-yard vineyard virgate wood-yard woodyard wreck yard wrecker's yard wrecking yard yard jockey yard up

Type Of (IsA)

area of land boat or ship part enclosure field land around house lawn lawn surrounding house linear unit little shorter than meter longer than foot measure of distance measure of distance and width open space inside building outdoor location outside area place in royal unit of measure shaft small area of land solid ground spar three feet tract unit of measurement unnatural thing virgate

Part Of

chain fathom lea perch sailing vessel

Related Terms

acre adjoining aloft area back back garden billion bound branch british carpet composition customary deer distance dollar english equal feet fenced fenced in front front grass garden grass green green carpet herd home home area house house lawn imperial jamaica land lateen lawn length lug mast measure measure distance measurement measuring meter milliard million moose now obsolete once other outdoor outdoor garden pasture penis precinct precisely protection rod rood roughly sail scotland scotland something shoot similar since spar square staff stick surveying system thousand three three feet timber trees twig understood unit us winter yardland year

Synonym Network

courtyard cubic yard ell garden hundred rod rood thousand virgate

Used For

area for business activity behind house cook outs cutting grass distinguish property ownership enclose area enclose poultry family gatherings guard prisoners hanging washing in have sale having garden hold in animals hold in chickens in front of house keep out animals keep out pests looking kempt maintain railroad cars measure curtain measure distance measure running track measuring measuring distance park trucks not in use place for children to play place for garden place for lawn plant flowers and enjoy out of doors playing playing games playing in storage storing things in

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.