BARNYARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barnyard mean? 

• BARNYARD (noun)
  The noun BARNYARD has 1 sense:

1. a yard adjoining a barn

  Familiarity information: BARNYARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARNYARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A yard adjoining a barn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("barnyard" is a kind of...):

yard (an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock))

 Context examples 

Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking furiously.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

India grows a variety of coarse grains — including sorghum, pearl millet, maize, barley, and finger millet — as well as many ‘small millets’ such as kodo millet, little millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, and barnyard millet.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)