yard
See also: Yard
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /jɑːd/
- (General American) enPR: yärd, IPA(key): /jɑɹd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).
See also Dutch gaard, obsolete German Gart, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål gård, Norwegian Nynorsk gard, Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”), Serbo-Croatian and Slovene grad ("town"), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard, Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬵𐬀 (gərədha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit गृह (gṛha)), Medieval Latin gardinus, jardinus. Doublet of garden.
NounEdit
yard (plural yards)
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- Synonym: (UK) garden
- An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- 1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps[1]:
- A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
- 2020 December 15, “We Paid (Remix)”, performed by #GS28 Goose, 0:15–0:21:
- Man’s devilish cunt, tell me nutting about friends, that’s dead
Cuz I run up in yards,
No vest, tryna ching man’s chest
And leave him dead
Derived termsEdit
See also: Yard
Derived terms
TranslationsEdit
land around a house
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enclosed area for a specific purpose
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VerbEdit
yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)
- (transitive) To confine to a yard.
- 1893, Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead:
- As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 14:
- The sheep were straggling in a manner that meant walking work to round them, and he supposed he would have to yard them tonight, if she didn't liven up.
Etymology 2Edit
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”).[1]
NounEdit
yard (plural yards or (UK colloquial) yard)
- 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).
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ […].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
- (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
- (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes […].
- 1774, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 23 July:
- [T]he testicles are quite exposed, but they wrap a piece of cloth or leafe round the yard which they tye up to the belly to a cord or bandage which they wear round the waist just under the short ribbs and over the belly and so tight that it was a wonder to us how they could endure it.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
- (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 161⁄2 feet.
- (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, 1⁄4 acre.
SynonymsEdit
- (arm length): See ell
- ($100): See hundred
- (surveying measure): See rod
- (large unit of area): See virgate
- (small unit of area): See rood
HypernymsEdit
- (unit of area): See virgate
HyponymsEdit
- (unit of area): See virgate
Derived termsEdit
- 18-yard line
- all wool and a yard wide
- by the yard
- clay yard
- cloth yard, cloth-yard
- cubic yard
- fore-yard, foreyard
- golden yard
- jackyard
- main yard, main-yard
- mast-yard
- meteyard
- mizen-yard, mizen yard, mizzen-yard, mizzen yard
- royal yardman
- sailyard
- six-yard box
- square yard
- steelyard
- under the yard
- upper yardman
- whole nine yards
- yardage
- yard-arm, yardarm
- yard-coal
- yarded
- yardel
- yard-fell
- yard goods
- yardland
- yard-long
- yard-measure
- yard of ale
- yard of clay
- yard of land
- yard of lime
- yard of mortar
- yard of satin
- yard of stone
- yard of tin
- yard-rope
- yard-seam
- yard-stick, yardstick
- yard-wand, yardwand
TranslationsEdit
nautical: tapered timber from which square sails hang
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nautical: any spar carried aloft
staff, rod, stick
three feet
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slang: one hundred units of currency
VerbEdit
yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)
- (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 62:
- He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.
Etymology 3Edit
Clipping of milliard.
NounEdit
yard (plural yards)
- (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- I need to hedge a yard of yen.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "yard, n.2". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1921.
AnagramsEdit
CzechEdit
NounEdit
yard m inan
- yard (unit of length)
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
yard m (plural yards)
- yard (unit of length)
Further readingEdit
- “yard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English yard.
NounEdit
yard f (plural yards)
Further readingEdit
- yard in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Jamaican CreoleEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
yard
- home
- 1999, Kamala Kempadoo, Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean (in English), →ISBN, page 138:
- “You say use a condom and dem say, "Mi naah use condom, mi have mi wife a mi yard and mi wife clean and me clean."”
- You say use a condom and they say, "I'm not going to use a condom. My wife's at home and my wife and I are both clean."
- Unnu love people yard too much.
- Y'all love spending time in other people's homes too much.
- Nuh weh nuh nice like yard.
- There's no place like home.
NounEdit
yard (plural yard dem or yards dem, quantified yard)
Further readingEdit
- Richard Allsopp, editor, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1996 (2003 printing), →ISBN, page 617
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
yard
- Alternative form of yerd
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English yard.
NounEdit
yard m (plural yarzi)