Synonyms for back yard

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bak-yahrd

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbækˈyɑrd

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Définition of back yard

Origin : also back-yard, 1650s (perhaps early 15c.), from back (adj.) + yard (n.1).

As in garden : noun cultivated plants, flowers

Example sentences :

So I went round to the back yard and there was nobody in it.
Extract from : « W. A. G.'s Tale » by Margaret Turnbull

On September 27 I found a blossom on the peach-tree in our back yard.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 » by Various

He marched to the door leading to the back yard and threw it open.
Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln

"I spend the heft of my daytimes out in the Back yard," he wrote.
Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Lute marched, and I marched with him as far as the back yard.
Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Go into the back yard, if you want to play marbles; it is Sunday.
Extract from : « The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; » by Various

"Yeh," said Arnold Hatch, one evening, when they were talking in the Pardee back yard.
Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber

An undertaking of such scope was too big to sequester in any man's back yard.
Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden

Billy sat on his stone in the back yard, his chin in his hand.
Extract from : « The Grasshopper Stories » by Elizabeth Davis Leavitt

Then I would go home and write—oh, about the snow in our back yard!
Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin

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