yard

Alternative forms

• yaird (obsolete, Scotland)
• yeard (archaic)
• yerd (obsolete)
• yod (pronunciation spelling)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /jɑːd/
• (General American) enPR: yärd, IPA: /jɑɹd/

Noun

yard (plural yards)

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
2. (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
   • Synonym: (UK) garden
3. An enclosed 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, MLE) One’s house or home.

Verb

yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)

1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.

Noun

yard (plural yards or (UK colloquial) yard)

1. A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
2. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
3. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
   1. (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
4. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
5. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
6. (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
7. (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
8. (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
9. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
10. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.

Verb

yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)

1. (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

Noun

yard (plural yards)

1. (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
   • I need to hedge a yard of yen.

Anagrams

• Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray

Noun

yard m inan

1. yard (unit of length)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /jaʁd/

Noun

yard m (plural yards)

1. yard (unit of length)

Noun

yard f (plural yards)

1. yard (unit of length)
   • Synonym: iarda

Alternative forms

• yaad, yawd

Pronunciation

• IPA: /jɑːd/, /jɔːd/
• Hyphenation: yard

Noun

yard

1. home
   • Unnu love people yard too much.

     • Y'all love spending time in other people's homes too much.
   • Nuh weh nuh nice like yard.

     • There's no place like home.

Noun

yard (plural yard dem or yards dem, quantified yard)

1. yard

Noun

yard

1. Alternative form of yerd

Noun

yard m (plural yarzi)

1. yard