1 (BrE) an area with a hard surface behind a house, often surrounded by a wall
2 (AmE) the whole area behind and belonging to a house, including an area of grass and the garden:
a backyard barbecue
seealsoYARD
IDIOMS
in your (own) backyard in or near the place where you live or work:
The residents didn't want a new factory in their backyard. * The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard (= from his own members).
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for backyard is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is backyard a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, backyard is tagged as noun.
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