Dictionary

backyard en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bækˈjɑːd/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From back + yard.

Meanings

1. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
   • I think when I discovered this republic, which is in Nevada - in one man's house and backyard and front garden - I think I stumbled across what for me really typifies the whole micronational movement. 2006 November 1, Alex Chadwick, “'Lonely Planet' Explores Micronations”, in NPR, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2025:
2. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, colloquial) 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.
   • The entire beach was my backyard, from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north. 2005, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption, →ISBN, page 18:
3. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
   • However, the region was in the United States backyard and Britain should look passively on with acquiescence in whatever policy the United States saw fit to pursue about Mexico. 1942, Wilfrid Hardy Callcott, The Caribbean policy of the United States, 1890-1920, page 343:

Forms

Antonyms

forecourt · front yard

Coordinates

backcourt

Deriveds

backyarder · backyard cricket · not in my backyard · in one's backyard, in one's own backyard

Hypernyms

yard

Relateds

court · dooryard · curtilage · lawn · garden

Translations (44)

da baghave (yard to the rear of a house) · uz hovli (yard to the rear of a house) · de Hinterhof (yard to the rear of a house) · th สวนหลังบ้าน (yard to the rear of a house) · es traspatio (yard to the rear of a house) · bcl libod (yard to the rear of a house) · uk за́днє подві́р'я (yard to the rear of a house) · pt quintal (yard to the rear of a house) · id pekarangan (yard to the rear of a house) · fr arrière-cour (yard to the rear of a house) · mr मागील अंगण (yard to the rear of a house) · bho पिछवाड़ा (yard to the rear of a house) · sv bakgård (yard to the rear of a house) · ca pati de darrere (yard to the rear of a house) · kea jardin (yard to the rear of a house) · es patio trasero (yard to the rear of a house) · da baggård (yard to the rear of a house) · mr परस (yard to the rear of a house) · te దొడ్డి (yard to the rear of a house) · cmn 後院 /后院 (yard to the rear of a house) · tl likod-bahay (yard to the rear of a house) · ru за́дний двор (yard to the rear of a house) · pl podwórko (yard to the rear of a house) · pdt Hinjahoff (yard to the rear of a house) · hi बगिया (yard to the rear of a house) · sm tu'afale (yard to the rear of a house) · oc rèirecort (yard to the rear of a house) · et tagaõu (yard to the rear of a house) · bcl higudan (yard to the rear of a house) · id halaman belakang (yard to the rear of a house) · af agterplaas (yard to the rear of a house) · vi sân sau (yard to the rear of a house) · nb bakgård (yard to the rear of a house) · ja 裏庭 (yard to the rear of a house) · tl duluhan (yard to the rear of a house) · ms halaman belakang (yard to the rear of a house) · ca eixida (yard to the rear of a house) · iso emu-uvbou (yard to the rear of a house) · el πίσω αυλή (yard to the rear of a house) · fi takapiha (yard to the rear of a house) · es patio de atrás (yard to the rear of a house) · nl achtertuin (yard to the rear of a house) · es jardín trasero (yard to the rear of a house) · ko 뒤뜰 (yard to the rear of a house)