Usually means: Unit of length, three feet.
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We found 68 dictionaries that define the word yard:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. yard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yard: Merriam-Webster
  3. yard, yard, the Yard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yard, yard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yard, the Yard: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yard: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yard, yard: Wordnik
  8. yard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Yard: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Yard, yard: Wiktionary
  11. yard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. yard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. yard: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. yard, the yard: Dictionary.com
  15. yard (1), yard (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. yard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. The Yard (adventure playground), YARD (software), Yard (disambiguation), Yard (land), Yard (sailing), Yard (unit), Yard (unit of length), Yard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Yard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. yard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. yard: Rhymezone
  21. Yard (nt), yard, yard (de), yard (m) (91,44 cm): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. yard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Yard: American-Britih Dictionary
  24. yard: FreeDictionary.org
  25. yard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Yard: The Word Detective
  27. yard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. yard: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. yard: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. yard: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Yard: bizterms.net
  4. Yard: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  6. Yard: Moneyterms
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Yard: Investopedia
  9. Yard (unit of length), yard: Legal dictionary
  10. Yard (unit of length), Yard: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yard (sailing), Yard (unit of length), yard: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yard: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Yard (unit of length), yard: Medical dictionary
  5. Yard: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  4. YARD: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. yard: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yard: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Yard: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  3. yard: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. yard, yard, yard, yard, yard, yard, yard, yard, Yard: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. yard: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Yard: Urban Dictionary
  4. Yard: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yard: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Yard: Brew Monkey Glossary
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Yard: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See yarded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
noun:  (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
noun:  An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
noun:  A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
noun:  (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
verb:  (transitive) To confine to a yard.
noun:  Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
noun:  (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
noun:  (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
noun:  (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
noun:  (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
noun:  (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
noun:  (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
noun:  (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
noun:  (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
noun:  (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.
verb:  (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
noun:  (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
noun:  Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard
noun:  (figurative, metonymically) The Metropolitan Police Service
noun:  (Jamaica) Jamaica
noun:  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).
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of square yard.. a unit of area (common with textiles)
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard.. a unit of volume (common in mining and earthmoving)

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