yard(LAND NEXT TO BUILDING)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Gardens & yards
allotment
arboretum
backyard
barnyard
boatyard
cloister
compound
cottage garden
court
farmyard
forecourt
formal
garden
ground
junkyard
physic garden
precinct
reclamation yard
roof garden
yard

Examples from literature

A loud noise of feet and voices came pouring into the courtyard. 
The firing had ceased and the courtyard was curiously still and empty. 
The only thing she did not like was the courtyard's dampness. 
The stone pavement of the spacious courtyard was in some places partly covered with moss, and a few weeds had sprung up in the corners, and along the edges by the walls. 
Within half an hour we passed under a stone archway and found ourselves snug in the haven of our merchant's courtyard. 

courtyard | American Dictionary

courtyard
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɔrtˌjɑrd, ˈkoʊrt-/
an area of flat ground outside and partly or completely surrounded by one or more buildings:
Entrance to the apartment building is through a central courtyard.

Examples of courtyard

courtyard
Numerous semi-public courtyards are also located along the southern, eastern and western walls of this palace.
Numerous courtyards as well as major and minor dividing walls are again clear throughout this palace.
Each house was designed to have two rooms (12 feet by 10 feet), a cooking verandah (8 feet by 10) and a common courtyard.
First, the main thesis on the value of courtyard housing as a viable type in the housing problem has been argued very successfully.
In addition, the buildings offered no protective open-air courtyards, exposing children who wanted to play in the grass to automatic gunfire.
There was no separation between the functions housed in the roofed space and in the enclosed courtyard.
But strong traditional, and even feudal aspects of their lives remained, as did their isolation in scattered courtyard farms.
It incorporated small offices around a courtyard to support homeworkers, providing facilities and the opportunity for sharing and networking.
Frequently accompanying such courtyard farmsteads are ranges of labourers dwellings.
These cottage ranges are often found dispersed through the lands of the farm operated by the tenant living in the courtyard range.
The small cemented courtyard was sunk into the ground as a basin to avoid rainwater penetrating the inner chamber.
The two bandits run away as fast as possible, exiting through the courtyard exit, beyond the trellis.
On the debating courtyard, monks deliberately place this ideology in jeopardy.
These divisions formally separate the semi-public courtyard complexes from one another, as well as from the private zone as a whole.
Performance was outdoors in the gallery courtyard, under a full moon.
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Collocations withcourtyard

courtyard

These are words often used in combination with courtyard.

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central courtyard
The primary elements that are proposed are three; the centralcourtyard, the dwellings arranged around the court and the parking garages.
enclosed courtyard
There was no separation between the functions housed in the roofed space and in the enclosed courtyard.
front courtyard
It is older and its frontcourtyard is full of vehicles, officers greeting each other or waiting for orders, and civilian staff and visitors.
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