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farm-yard

farm-yard is the archaic form of farmyard.

Meaning of farmyard

Noun

farmyard (plural farmyards)

  1. The area of a farm, excluding the fields, usually surrounded by or adjacent to farm buildings.
    • "Where's Kipper?" I asked, and was surprised to note that Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature. "Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    barnyard

Forms of farm-yard

pluralfarm-yards

Questions about farm-yard

What is farm-yard the archaic form of?
Farm-yard is the archaic form of farmyard.

Words near farm-yard in the dictionary

  1. farm-like
  2. farm-mate
  3. farm-mates
  4. farm-to-fork
  5. farm-to-table
  6. farm-yard
  7. farm-yards
  8. farmability
  9. farmable
  10. farmaceutical
  11. farmaceuticals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: farm-yard (page history and authors); farmyard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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