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dooryard

dooryard noun: the yard near the front or back door of a house.

Noun

dooryard (plural dooryards)

  1. (Atlantic-Canada, Maine, Vermont) the yard near the front or back door of a house
    • In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash’d palings, / Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, […]1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
    • "You're soft, Jane," said Miranda once; "you allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you 'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard."1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Forms of dooryard

pluraldooryards

Origin of dooryard

From door + yard.

Words formed from dooryard

Questions about dooryard

What does dooryard mean?
Dooryard means the yard near the front or back door of a house.
What part of speech is dooryard?
Dooryard is a noun.
What is the plural of dooryard?
The plural of dooryard is dooryards.

Words near dooryard in the dictionary

  1. doorweed
  2. doorweeds
  3. doorwise
  4. doorwoman
  5. doorwomen
  6. dooryard
  7. dooryard dock
  8. dooryards
  9. doos
  10. doose
  11. Doose syndrome

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