Definitions for backyard
ˈbækˈyɑrdback·yard

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1. backyardnoun

   the grounds in back of a house

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1. backyardnoun

   A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.

2. backyardnoun

   A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.

3. backyardnoun

   An area nearby to a country or other jurisidiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.

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1. Backyard

   A backyard, or back yard (known in the United Kingdom as a back garden or just garden), is a yard at the back of a house, common in suburban developments in the Western world.In Australia, until the mid-20th century, the back yard of a property would traditionally contain a fowl run, outhouse ("dunny"), vegetable patch, and woodheap. More recently, these have been replaced by outdoor entertainments such as a barbecue and swimming pool. But, since the 1990s, the trend in Australian suburban development has been for back yards to disappear as the dwellings now occupy almost all of the building plot.In higher latitudes, it is economical in low land value regions to use open land surrounding a house for vegetable gardening during summers and allow sunlight to enter house windows from a low horizon angle during winters. As land value increases, houses are built nearer to each other. In order to preserve some of the open land, house owners may choose to allow construction on the side land of their houses, but not build in front of or behind their house in order to preserve some remnants of open surrounding land. The back area is known as the backyard or back garden.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of backyard in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of backyard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of backyard in a Sentence

1. John Moorlach:

   You can’t just keep tying the hands of people that are trying help out by just being obstinate about it, we’ve got to find our balance; we’ve gotta say, you know, ‘When does compassion kick in,’ more than ‘Not in my backyard.’ Because, baby, it is in your backyard. It’s on your riding trails. It’s on Fairview Park. We’ve got homeless everywhere.

2. Michael Blowen:

   Some of these horses are like your best athletes -- they gave everything to the sport, and they got banged up in the process, to me, this is like having Larry Bird in my backyard.

3. Colin Goddard:

   You can run in the NRA's own backyard, and you're going to have support.

4. Rebekah Heiner of Newport News:

   I sent my husband out with the leaf blower a couple months ago to clear the backyard of all the leaves that had fallen off our tree, and when I peeked outside, I found my daughter and husband jumping through the pile and throwing leaves at each other. It certainly made me smile and was a good reminder not to take life too seriously.

5. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   **(C)(P) REGGAE HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY. IT IS A REGGAE EDUCATION FOR A HEALING OF THE NATIONS. I CREATED IT IN MY 1962 TRENCH TOWN BACKYARD AND OWNS EXCLUSIVELY THE COPYRIGHTS FOR ITS CREATION.REGGAE-ORIGIN OF THE WORD AND INCORPORATION INTO MUSIC. SEE THE USA COPYRIGHTS OFFICE.

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