yard

yard

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English

Alternative forms

  • yaird (obsolete, Scotland)
  • yeard (archaic)
  • yerd (obsolete)
  • yod (pronunciation spelling)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /jɑːd/
  • (General American) enPR: yärd, IPA(key): /jɑɹd/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English yerd, 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 and Norwegian Bokmål gård, Norwegian Nynorsk gard), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”) (Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard, Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬵𐬀‎ (gərədha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit गृह (gṛha)), Medieval Latin gardinus, Medieval Latin jardinus. Doublet of garden.

Noun

yard (plural yards)

  1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
  2. (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
    Synonym: (UK) garden
  3. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
  4. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
  5. (Jamaican, MLE) One’s house or home.
Derived terms

See also Yard

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ȝerde, yerd, ȝerd, from Old English ġierd (“branch; rod, staff; measuring stick; yardland”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀd, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz. Cognate with Dutch gard (“twig”), German Gerte and probably related to Latin hasta (“spear”).

Noun

yard (plural yards)

  1. A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
  2. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
  4. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
    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.
  5. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
  6. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
  7. (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
  8. (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
  9. (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
    • a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:
      You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
  10. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+1⁄2 feet.
  11. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, 1⁄4 acre.
Synonyms
  • (arm length): See ell
  • ($100): See hundred
  • (surveying measure): See rod
  • (large unit of area): See virgate
  • (small unit of area): See rood
Hypernyms
  • (unit of area): See virgate
Hyponyms
  • (unit of area): See virgate
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of 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.

References

Anagrams

  • Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray

Czech

Noun

yard m

  1. yard (unit of length)

Further reading

  • yard in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • yard in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

From English yard.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jaʁd/

Noun

yard m (plural yards)

  1. yard (unit of length)

Further reading

  • “yard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English yard.

Noun

yard f (plural yards)

  1. yard (unit of length)
    Synonym: iarda

Further reading

  • yard in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

  • yaad, yawd

Etymology

From English yard.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɑːd/, /jɔːd/
  • Hyphenation: yard

Noun

yard

  1. home

Noun

yard (plural: yard dem or yards dem, quantified: yard)

  1. yard

Further reading

  • Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 617

Middle English

Noun

yard

  1. Alternative form of yerd

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English yard.

Noun

yard m (plural yarzi)

  1. yard

Declension

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