• (RP) IPA: /jɑːd/
• (GA) enPR: yärd, IPA: /jɑɹd/

yard (plural yards)

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
2. (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

   Synonyms: garden

3. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
4. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
5. (Jamaica) One’s house or home.

• French: cour, jardin
• German: Hof
• Italian: cortile
• Portuguese: quintal, cercado, pátio
• Russian: двор
• Spanish: patio

yard (yards, present participle yarding; past and past participle yarded)

1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.

yard (plural yards)

1. A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
2. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
3. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
   1. (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bend#Verb|bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
4. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
5. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
6. (obsolete, medical) A penis.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes […].

7. (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
8. (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
   • ante 1634 W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:

     You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

9. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) frac 16 feet.
10. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, frac 1 acre.

• (arm length) See ell
• ($100) See hundred
• (surveying measure) See rod
• (large unit of area) See virgate
• (small unit of area) See rood

• French: vergue
• German: Rah
• Russian: ре́я

• French: verge

• French: yard, (Canada) verge
• Italian: iarda, yard
• Portuguese: jarda
• Russian: ярд
• Spanish: yarda, vara

yard (plural yards)

1. (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion#English|billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

   I need to hedge a yard of yen.

1. Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard
2. (Jamaica) Jamaica
3. (figurative, metonym) The Metropolitan Police Service

• German: (der) Yard