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Another word for yard

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Noun

  1. An area partially or entirely enclosed by walls or buildings

    See also:

    place

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for yard

Noun

  1. An enclosure, usually about a building

    See also:

    playground

  2. An enclosure for work

  3. Often plural; tracks for making up trains

  4. A unit of measurement

    See also:

    measure

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Sentence Examples

  • Len pulled the truck into the yard and stopped.

  • Last evening I went out in the yard and spoke to the moon.

  • He turned the beam around the yard and then shut the door.

  • No yard! but unfenced nature reaching up to your very sills.

  • Giddon had barely left the yard on Diablo and Lisa instantly recognized it as a chance to investigate the building.

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