Synonyms for yard
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1. yard, pacenoun

   a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

   Synonyms:
   footstep, cubic yard, one thousand, gait, tread, railyard, railway yard, pace, grounds, step, tempo, thou, curtilage, grand, thousand, rate, stride, chiliad

2. yard, grounds, curtilagenoun

   the enclosed land around a house or other building

   "it was a small house with almost no yard"

   Synonyms:
   reason, cause, cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, evidence, grand

3. yardnoun

   a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)

   "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

4. thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yardnoun

   the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

   Synonyms:
   railyard, megabyte, special K, green, guanine, gigabyte, super C, kibibyte, potassium, thousand, mebibyte, g-force, metre, cat valium, universal gravitational constant, atomic number 19, gibibyte, railway yard, kB, curtilage, grounds, grand, super acid, kelvin, gramme, pace, kilobyte, gee, chiliad, cubic yard, molar concentration, deoxyguanosine monophosphate, molarity, meter, honey oil, constant of gravitation, gravitational constant, one thousand, gram, grand piano, thou, gm, jet

5. cubic yard, yardnoun

   a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

6. yardnoun

   a tract of land where logs are accumulated

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

7. yard, railway yard, railyardnoun

   an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

8. yardnoun

   a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

9. yardnoun

   an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

Matched Categories

1. • Enclosure
   • Field
   • Large Integer
   • Linear Unit
   • Spar
   • Tract
   • Volume Unit

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1. take something in stride

   to cope with something unfortunate without much effort; to accept or manage difficulties well.

   he took it in stride when they attempted to ostracize him

   Submitted by anonymous on April 7, 2020  

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1. yardnoun

   Synonyms:
   enclosure, COMPOUND

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1. yardnoun

   Synonyms:
   three feet, enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law)

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1. List of paraphrases for "yard":

   triage, garden, courtyard, patio, backyard, sorting, court, jardin, square, shunting, marshalling, yards, shipyard, al-haidari, chantier, verge

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1. Danielle Hecker:

   We've just been cutting people's trees down in their yard because the insurance isn't going to cover that and we've been taking care of that and we've been going through like a swarm of locusts taking all these trees down.

2. Carole Baskin:

   Well, I am really worried about the fact that it’s still on the loose because clearly, the people who have been managing this cat up until this point are not people who make good decisions, that cat looked like it had been out there in the front yard for a while before anybody even came looking for it so I am extremely worried about what’s going to happen to that cat or what that cat is going to do to somebody given the fact that nobody is turning them in.

3. Mitch McConnell:

   At last I believe we're on the five-yard line. It has taken a lot of noise and a lot of rhetoric to get us here, depsite all of that we are very close.

4. Christine Zellers:

   Gardening can provide a sense of accomplishment and reward, in addition to movement, by doing something with your hands that is fulfilling, like feeding your family or making your yard look wonderful.

5. Thomas Romo:

   I’m looking at him in the yard, and I’m going, ‘what the hell is that on that guy’s nose over there?’ i walked over there and instantaneously knew that it was rhinophyma.