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Synonyms for yard
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  1. yard, pacenoun

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

    Synonyms:
    footstep, cubic yard, one thousand, gait, tread, railyard, railway yard, pace, grounds, step, tempo, thou, curtilage, grand, thousand, rate, stride, chiliad

  2. yard, grounds, curtilagenoun

    the enclosed land around a house or other building

    "it was a small house with almost no yard"

    Synonyms:
    reason, cause, cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, evidence, grand

  3. yardnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

  4. thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yardnoun

    the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

    Synonyms:
    railyard, megabyte, special K, green, guanine, gigabyte, super C, kibibyte, potassium, thousand, mebibyte, g-force, metre, cat valium, universal gravitational constant, atomic number 19, gibibyte, railway yard, kB, curtilage, grounds, grand, super acid, kelvin, gramme, pace, kilobyte, gee, chiliad, cubic yard, molar concentration, deoxyguanosine monophosphate, molarity, meter, honey oil, constant of gravitation, gravitational constant, one thousand, gram, grand piano, thou, gm, jet

  5. cubic yard, yardnoun

    a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

    Synonyms:
    cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

  6. yardnoun

    a tract of land where logs are accumulated

    Synonyms:
    cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

  7. yard, railway yard, railyardnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

  8. yardnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

  9. yardnoun

    an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

    Synonyms:
    cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

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  1. take something in stride

    to cope with something unfortunate without much effort; to accept or manage difficulties well.

    he took it in stride when they attempted to ostracize him

    Submitted by anonymous on April 7, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. yardnoun

    Synonyms:
    enclosure, COMPOUND

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  1. yardnoun

    Synonyms:
    three feet, enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law)

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How to use yard in a sentence?

  1. Mary Ellen Gallagher:

    Everyone is working from home. They are looking for some sort of relief from the city, a little more space, a yard for the kids.

  2. Julie Pizarro:

    You can see the yard is immaculate, the boy kept it that way.

  3. Tom Brady:

    Nothing replaces the joy that he gets being on the 100-yard football field.

  4. Ronald Shumway:

    It’s a horrible situation, a man was murdered, buried in his own back yard, had his property stolen and probably his bank accounts drained from somebody from what I understand was trying to help.

  5. Rutgers University:

    If I’m a Ku Klux Klan member, and I’m going to burn a cross on a vacant lot, that’s a constitutionally protected right, you put that cross on my front yard, and you light it, that is not constitutionally protected. That’s harassment. It’s an exception to the First Amendment.


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