yard

Meaning of yard

noun
  1. a unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre).
    a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth
  2. a cylindrical spar, tapering to each end, slung across a ship's mast for a sail to hang from.
  3. 100 dollars; a 100 dollar bill.
    it cost two hundred up front—one yard for Maurice, one for the girl

Old English gerd (in yard1 (sense 2)), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gard ‘twig, rod’ and German Gerte .

noun
  1. a piece of uncultivated ground adjoining a building, typically one enclosed by walls or other buildings.
    tiny houses with the lavatory in the yard
  2. an area of land used for a particular purpose or business.
    a builder's yard
  3. a house and the land attached.
  4. (especially among expatriate Jamaicans) home; Jamaica.
    life in Yard is no Caribbean holiday
verb
  1. store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard.
    he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs
    Canadian operators never practised yarding on a wider scale
  2. put (farm animals) into an enclosure.
    sheep should be yarded even in the spring
  3. (of moose) gather as a herd for the winter.
    they note changes in the numbers of moose yarding together

Old English geard ‘building, home, region’, from a Germanic base related to Russian gorod ‘town’. Compare with garden and orchard.

Information about yard

  • The plural form of yard is: yards.
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Hyphenation of yard

yard

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • yard is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

yard synonyms

Meaning pace:

pace

Meaning grounds:

grounds, curtilage

Meaning thousand:

thousand, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou

Meaning a room or building in which goods are manufactured or repaired:

workshop

Meaning a place or premises in which industrial or manufacturing processes are carried out:

works

Meaning a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine:

factory

Meaning a building for housing a motor vehicle or vehicles:

garage

Meaning a place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place:

plant

Meaning a workshop or factory for casting metal:

foundry

Meaning a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour:

mill

Meaning an enclosed area of land where ships are built and repaired:

shipyard

Meaning a factory:

manufactory

Translation of yard

Anagrams of yard

adry, Ardy, Dray, dray

Words that rhyme with yard

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