Usually means: Outdoor area behind a house.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word backyard:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. backyard: Merriam-Webster
  2. backyard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backyard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backyard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backyard: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backyard, backyard: Wordnik
  7. backyard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backyard: Wiktionary
  9. backyard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backyard: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. backyard: Dictionary.com
  12. backyard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Backyard (Pebbles song), Backyard (film), Backyard, The Backyard (EP), The Backyard (video game): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. backyard: Rhymezone
  15. backyard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. backyard: FreeDictionary.org
  17. backyard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. backyard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. backyard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. backyard: Merriam-Webster

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. backyard: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. backyard, backyard: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. backyard: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (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.

Similar:
yard, back garden, back, backside, dooryard, garden, sideyard, yardarm, houseback, storeyard, more...

Types:
garden, lawn, patio, deck, pool, fire pit, more...

Phrases:
Backyard breeder, backyard cricket, not in my backyard, in your backyard, tree in my parent's backyard, more...

Adjectives:
own, small, large, big, fenced, tiny, suburban, huge, entire, spacious, private

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Similar:
yard, back garden, back, backside, dooryard, garden, sideyard, yardarm, houseback, storeyard, more...

Types:
garden, lawn, patio, deck, pool, fire pit, more...

Phrases:
Backyard breeder, backyard cricket, not in my backyard, in your backyard, tree in my parent's backyard, tree in my parents backyard, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, Backyard Brawl, Backyard furnace, more...

Adjectives:
own, small, large, big, fenced, tiny, suburban, huge, entire, spacious, private

Colors:
    green,     brown,     blue,     yellow,     red, more...



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