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Words related to yard

Related / Similar Words: grounds, curtilage, railway yard, cubic yard, pace, thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou

Definition:

an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock);

a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen;

the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard";

an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines;

a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town";

a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel);

a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride;

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100;

Hyponyms: barnyard, chicken yard, hen yard, chicken run, fowl run, farmyard, stockyard, main yard, backyard, court, courtyard, dooryard, front yard, garden, playground, side yard, marshalling yard, junkyard, schoolyard, churchyard, God's acre, tiltyard

Part Meronyms: sailing vessel, sailing ship, fathom, fthm, chain, perch, rod, pole, lea

Derivational Morphology: pace, step

Anagrams: dray

Language Translations:
Chinese: 院子		Dutch: erf
Finnish: piha		French: cour
German: Hof		Italian: cortile
Japanese: 庭		Korean: 뜰
Portuguese: quintal		Romanian: yard
Russian: двор		Spanish: patio
Swedish: gård

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