yard

See also Yard

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /jɑː(ɹ)d/, X-SAMPA: /jA:(r\)d/
• (US) enPR: yärd, IPA: /jɑːɹd/, X-SAMPA: /jA:r\d/

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Etymology 1

From Middle English yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure, enclosed place, court, residence, dwelling, home, region, land; hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Dutch gaard, obsolete German Gart, Swedish gård), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos < *ǵʰortós, from *ǵʰer- 'enclosure' (compare Old Irish gort 'wheat field', Latin hortus 'garden', Tocharian B kerccī 'palace', Lithuanian gardas 'pen, enclosure', Russian город (górod) 'town', Albanian gardh 'fence', Romanian gard, Ancient Greek χόρτος (chórtos, “farmyard”), Avestan gərədha 'dev's cave', Sanskrit gŗhás

Noun

yard (plural yards)

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia).
2. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
   • 1931, Francis Beeding, chapter 2/2, Death Walks in Eastrepps^[1]:

     A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.

3. (Jamaica) One’s house or home.

Translations

land around a house

• Albanian: gardh (sq) m
• Arabic: حديقة (ar) (ḥadīqa) f
• Armenian: բակ (hy) (bak)
• Belarusian: двор (be) (dvor) m, дворык (be) (dvóryk) m
• Bulgarian: двор (bg) (dvor) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 院子 (cmn) (yuànzi), 庭院 (cmn) (tíngyuàn)

• Czech: dvůr (cs) m, dvorek (cs) m
• Dutch: erf (nl)
• Esperanto: korto (eo)
• Estonian: õu (et)
• Finnish: piha (fi)
• French: cour (fr) f, jardin (fr) m
• German: Hof (de) m
• Greek: αυλή (el) (avlí) f
• Hebrew: גַּן (he) (gan) m
• Hungarian: udvar (hu)
• Italian: cortile (it) m
• Japanese: 庭 (ja) (にわ, niwa)
• Jèrriais: bel m
• Korean: 뜰 (ko) (tteul), 마당 (ko) (madang)

• Latin: ārea (la) f
• Latvian: pagalms (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kiemas (lt) m
• Macedonian: двор (mk) (dvor) m
• Papiamentu: curá
• Polish: podwórze (pl) n, podwórko (pl) n
• Portuguese: quintal (pt) m, cercado (pt) m, pátio (pt) m
• Romanian: vergă (ro) m
• Russian: двор (ru) (dvor) m, дворик (ru) (dvórik) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дво̀рӣште (sh) n, а̀влија (sh) f

  Roman: dvòrīšte (sh) n, àvlija (sh) f

• Slovak: dvor (sk) m
• Slovene: dvorišče (sl) n
• Spanish: patio (es) m
• Swedish: gård (sv), trädgård (sv), tomt (sv)
• Turkish: avlu (tr)
• Ukrainian: двір (uk) (dvir) m, дворик (uk) (dvóryk) m
• Vietnamese: sân (vi)
• Volapük: yad (vo)
• Walloon: coû (wa) f

enclosed area for a specific purpose

• Albanian: gardh (sq) m
• Danish: gård (da)
• Finnish: kenttä, aitaus, -tarha (fi)
• Irish: clós (ga) m

• Japanese: 置き場 (ja) (okiba)
• Jèrriais: bel m
• Korean: 울안 (ko) (urAn)

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Derived terms

See also Yard

terms derived from yard

apple-yard back yard, back-yard, backyard barn-yard, barnyard bone-yard, boneyard brickyard castle yard chapel yard churchyard court-yard, courtyard deer-yard, deeryard dockyard door-yard, dooryard dung-yard farm-yard, farmyard fore-yard front yard graveyard green-yard, greenyard grip-yard

hemp-yard hop-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 navy yard, navy-yard olive-yard ox-yard, oxyard palace yard par-yard poultry-yard press-yard rick-yard, rickyard

rope-yard sale-yard, saleyard 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 vinegar-yard vineyard wood-yard, woodyard

yardage yard bird, yardbird yard-boy yard broom yard-dike yard-dog yardful yard grass, yard-grass yardhove yarding yardland yardman yardmaster yard-money yardperson yard sale yardsman yardswoman yard work, yard-work

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.
   • 1893, Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead

     As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.

Etymology 2

From Middle English yerd, ȝerd, from Old English ġierd, ġerd (“yard, rod, staff, stake, fagot, twig; measure of length”), from Proto-Germanic *gazdijō. Cognate with Dutch gard (“twig”), German Gerte.

Noun

yard (plural yards)

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.
2. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft (Wikipedia).
3. A staff, rod or stick.
4. A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK; Wikipedia).
5. (US, slang) One-hundred dollars.
6. (obsolete) The penis.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:

     there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes […] .

Derived terms

terms derived from yard

all wool and a yard wide by the yard clay yard cloth yard, cloth-yard cubic yard fore-yard, foreyard golden yard jackyard main yard, main-yard mast-yard meteyard

mizen-yard, mizen yard, mizzen-yard, mizzen yard royal yardman sailyard six-yard box square yard steelyard under the yard upper yardman yardage yard-arm, yardarm

yard-coal yarded yardel yard-fell yard goods yardland yard-long yard-measure 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-rope yard-seam yard-stick, yardstick yard-wand, yardwand whole nine yards

Translations

nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang

• Dutch: ra (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: jardo (eo)
• Finnish: raaka (fi)
• Irish: slat (ga) f, cleith (ga) f

• Romanian: vergă (ro) f
• Russian: рея (ru) (r'éja) f
• Swedish: rå (sv) c

nautical: any spar carried aloft

• Esperanto: jardo (eo)

staff, rod, stick

• Esperanto: vergo (eo), stango (eo)
• French: verge (fr) f

• Irish: slat (ga) f

three feet

• Armenian: յարդ (hy) (yard)
• Belarusian: ярд (be) (jard) m
• Bulgarian: ярд (bg) (jard) m
• Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (chr) (sutlilodv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碼 (cmn), 码 (cmn) (mǎ)

• Czech: yard (cs) m
• Esperanto: jardo (eo)
• Ewe: abɔ
• Finnish: jaardi (fi)
• French: yard m, verge f (Canada)
• Georgian: იარდი (ka) (iardi)

• Greek: γιάρδα (el) (giárda) f
• Irish: slat (ga) f
• Italian: iarda (it) f, yard (it) f
• Japanese: ヤード (ja) (yādo)
• Norwegian: yard (no) m
• Polish: jard (pl) m
• Portuguese: jarda (pt) f
• Russian: ярд (ru) (jard) m
• Spanish: yarda (es) f
• Telugu: గజం (te)
• Ukrainian: ярд (uk) (jard) m

Etymology 3

Corruption of French milliard.

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

• adry
• dray

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French

Noun

yard m (plural yards)

1. yard (unit of length)

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Italian

Noun

yard f (plural yard)

1. yard (unit of length)

Synonyms

• iarda