Synonyms for yard
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1. yard, pacenoun

   a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

   Synonyms:
   footstep, cubic yard, one thousand, gait, tread, railyard, railway yard, pace, grounds, step, tempo, thou, curtilage, grand, thousand, rate, stride, chiliad

2. yard, grounds, curtilagenoun

   the enclosed land around a house or other building

   "it was a small house with almost no yard"

   Synonyms:
   reason, cause, cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, evidence, grand

3. yardnoun

   a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)

   "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

4. thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yardnoun

   the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

   Synonyms:
   railyard, megabyte, special K, green, guanine, gigabyte, super C, kibibyte, potassium, thousand, mebibyte, g-force, metre, cat valium, universal gravitational constant, atomic number 19, gibibyte, railway yard, kB, curtilage, grounds, grand, super acid, kelvin, gramme, pace, kilobyte, gee, chiliad, cubic yard, molar concentration, deoxyguanosine monophosphate, molarity, meter, honey oil, constant of gravitation, gravitational constant, one thousand, gram, grand piano, thou, gm, jet

5. cubic yard, yardnoun

   a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

6. yardnoun

   a tract of land where logs are accumulated

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

7. yard, railway yard, railyardnoun

   an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

8. yardnoun

   a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

9. yardnoun

   an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

   Synonyms:
   cubic yard, chiliad, pace, curtilage, thousand, grounds, one thousand, railway yard, thou, railyard, grand

Matched Categories

1. • Enclosure
   • Field
   • Large Integer
   • Linear Unit
   • Spar
   • Tract
   • Volume Unit

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1. take something in stride

   to cope with something unfortunate without much effort; to accept or manage difficulties well.

   he took it in stride when they attempted to ostracize him

   Submitted by anonymous on April 7, 2020  

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1. yardnoun

   Synonyms:
   enclosure, COMPOUND

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1. yardnoun

   Synonyms:
   three feet, enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law)

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1. List of paraphrases for "yard":

   triage, garden, courtyard, patio, backyard, sorting, court, jardin, square, shunting, marshalling, yards, shipyard, al-haidari, chantier, verge

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1. Alexander Smith:

   Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

2. Ted Cruz:

   Yes, my dad killed JFK, he is secretly Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa is buried in his back yard.

3. Gretchen VanOstrand:

   Stop! let me go back because the sparkling frost covers the yard and now your last stop on Earth is frozen

4. Peter Keller:

   When you go in the engine room of a ship, you're typically gonna put gloves on, you're gonna put a boiler suit on, you're gonna do that, because it's dirty, you go into the engine room of ... our first LNG-powered container ship and it looks like it just came out of the yard yesterday.

5. Kailash Prajapati:

   That is when the brother took a scythe and struck her four times and beheaded her. They then picked up the head and kept it outside the house in the yard and left the body inside.