Word.ws English Dictionary

gaolyard

gaolyard noun: dated spelling of jailyard.

Noun

gaolyard (plural gaolyards)

  1. (Commonwealth) Dated spelling of jailyard.

Forms of gaolyard

pluralgaolyards

Origin of gaolyard

From gaol + yard.

Questions about gaolyard

What does gaolyard mean?
Gaolyard means dated spelling of jailyard.
What part of speech is gaolyard?
Gaolyard is a noun.
What is the plural of gaolyard?
The plural of gaolyard is gaolyards.

Words near gaolyard in the dictionary

  1. gaoloresses
  2. gaolors
  3. gaols
  4. gaolward
  5. gaolwards
  6. gaolyard
  7. gaolyards
  8. gaon
  9. Gaona
  10. Gaonas
  11. gaonate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gaolyard (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gaolyard.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gaolyard. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.