Word.ws English Dictionary

innyard

innyard noun: the yard of an inn.

Noun

innyard (plural innyards)

  1. The yard of an inn.
    • [He] had scarcely left the room, when Adeline observed a party of horsemen enter the inn-yard, and she had no doubt these were the persons from whom they fled.1791, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Dublin: P. Wogan et al., Volume 2, Chapter 11, p. 8
    • I immediately opened the door and stepped out into the inn-yard, crowded with conducteurs, grooms, and ostlers, who, I thought, looked rather surprised at seeing me emerge from the diligence.1839, Charles Lever, chapter 26, in The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Dublin: W. Curry, page 199

Forms of innyard

pluralinnyards
alternative forminn yard
alternative forminn-yard

Origin of innyard

From inn + yard.

Questions about innyard

What does innyard mean?
Innyard means the yard of an inn.
What part of speech is innyard?
Innyard is a noun.
What is the plural of innyard?
The plural of innyard is innyards.

Words near innyard in the dictionary

  1. innutritious
  2. innutritive
  3. Innviertel
  4. Innwa
  5. inny
  6. innyard
  7. innyards
  8. Ino
  9. Inoa
  10. Inoas
  11. inobedient

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: innyard (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: “innyard.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/innyard. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.