backyard
the portion of a lot or building site behind a house, structure, or the like, sometimes fenced, walled, etc.
a familiar or nearby area; neighborhood.
Origin of backyard
1Words Nearby backyard
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How to use backyard in a sentence
The remote controlled flying craft has gone from covert military ops to a communal backyard hobby.
As a kid, you were convinced that enough digging in the backyard would take you straight through to China.
Heavily armed Simbas had already arrived at the missionary house and were lining up families in the backyard for execution.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTConversation may have been limited, but not once did my toilet flood over, and I never had to wear sneakers in my backyard.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Rednecks and Their Unjustly Unsung Kin | Allison Glock | August 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor years the need to push patties took the form of thin-cut ground beef served in fast-food joints and backyard barbecues.
Have We Reached ‘Peak Burger’? The Crazy Fetishization of Our Most Basic Comfort Food | Brandon Presser | July 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
A few feet further on was the backyard laid out in a garden with a waterless age-browned concrete fountain in the center.
Commission Exhibit 436, is that a picture of the doorway area leading to the backyard of your home?
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThey were in the midst of their breakfast when the old woman came in the backyard with her basket.
Bumper, The White Rabbit | George Ethelbert Walsh"This is really much better than being cooped up in the old woman's backyard," he reflected.
Bumper, The White Rabbit | George Ethelbert WalshI was giving my baby an airing in the garden when a call from the maid-of-all-work sent me hurrying into the backyard.
Thirty Years in Australia | Ada Cambridge
British Dictionary definitions for back yard
a yard at the back of a house, etc
in one's own back yard
close at hand
involving or implicating one: See NIMBY
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