Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yard at the rear of a house.
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- noun A
yard to the rear of a house or similarresidence . - noun colloquial A person's
neighborhood , or an area nearby to a person's usualresidence or place of work and where the person is likely to go. - noun colloquial An area nearby to a country or other jurisidiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the grounds in back of a house
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Examples
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The term backyard can be variously defined as a neighborhood or local community, local government area, a city or even a state.
NIMBYism 2008
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For me, the backyard is the planet and our entire approach to sustainability.
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You said our backyard is a private space unless we have company, but Carly isn't company said Gillam.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: MYRA AND GILLAM Maggie Jochild 2007
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"You have every U.S. hedge fund and private-equity fund playing in what we call our backyard in Asia," he added.
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Yes, it's in my "backyard", but that backyard is an hour away.
Freezing Rain - Oh My sidewinder 2003
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And that backyard is amazing …. that is as big as our whole town!
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This buck in my backyard is sporting the beginnings of some velvet clad antlers
Field & Stream 2009
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Plus, the lots are mostly on the top of a ridge so that your backyard is completely private, a wooded, quick descent that you can't build on.
biting insects 2009
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It's pretty nuts - we're in Warren and our backyard is completely flooded - my friend has 14 of water in her basement and I just got back from helping her hook up an old pool pump to suck it out.
"There's blood in the sky. It bleeds from the land." greygirlbeast 2010
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Plus, the lots are mostly on the top of a ridge so that your backyard is completely private, a wooded, quick descent that you can't build on.
biting insects 2009
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