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dooryards

dooryards is the plural of dooryard.

Meaning of dooryard

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

Questions about dooryards

What is dooryards the plural of?
Dooryards is the plural of dooryard.

Words near dooryards in the dictionary

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

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