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

Matched Categories

1. • Enclosure
   • Field
   • Large Integer
   • Linear Unit
   • Spar
   • Tract
   • Volume Unit

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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  

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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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1. List of paraphrases for "yard":

   triage, garden, courtyard, patio, backyard, sorting, court, jardin, square, shunting, marshalling, yards, shipyard, al-haidari, chantier, verge

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How to use yard in a sentence?

1. Tony Scott:

   If you’re decorating in the yard, is the grass really dry where you’re putting these lights ?

2. Shari Sprigle:

   The first time I put an Obama sign in our yard, our neighbor came over and jokingly threatened our lives.

3. Jennifer Marlon:

   What we think of as climate change is now becoming very personal, it's not far away anymore it's now in our front yard, it's in our backyards, it's in our basements, it's even in our lungs as breathing smoke from these wildfires.

4. Tony Beasley:

   Anyone can do that. I can do that with a dish in my back yard, basically, i don't know that there's anything particularly sinister or troubling about any part of China's space radio network in Argentina.

5. President Barack Obama:

   There are officers here who were in the thick of two attacks last year: the shooting at the Washington Naval Yard and the bombing at the Boston Marathon, on those awful days -- and we all remember them -- amid the smoke and the chaos, the courage of these officers shone through. And their quick thinking and level-headedness undoubtedly saved lives.