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Definition of backyard:
Synonyms for backyard:
car park, bower, arcade, patio, blind alley, bed, nonprofessional, herbaceous border, alleyway, yard, amateur, allotment, Sunday, alley, play area, garden, cloister, terrace, botanical garden, deck, close, enclosure, border, jackleg, campus, back, grass, grounds, court, flowerbed, lawn.
Usage examples:
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You'd better build a shed in the backyard and sleep there if you're so dumb you can't tell night from day."
- "Half Portions", Edna Ferber. -
It was after this extraordinary occurrence at their shop that Miner left Ambrose and Moses alone for three evenings in succession, the tall man sitting in his chair in the backyard under a ripening apple tree, with Moses at his side and his friend's empty chair near by.
- "The Loves of Ambrose", Margaret Vandercook. -
There was the same draught under the door, the same darkness on the kitchen stairs, the same difficulties with tradesmen in the distant backyard, the same twist in the bedroom stairs, the same eternal ascending and descending of pails.
- "The Old Wives' Tale", Arnold Bennett.