FARMYARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farmyard mean? 

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

1. an area adjacent to farm buildings

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARMYARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area adjacent to farm buildings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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

Holonyms ("farmyard" is a part of...):

farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)

 Context examples 

The farmyard must be moved, I grant you; but I am not aware of anything else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Soon afterwards, as they were passing by a farmyard, they saw a cock perched upon a gate, and screaming out with all his might and main.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The farmyard must be cleared away entirely, and planted up to shut out the blacksmith's shop.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To want a horse and cart in the country seemed impossible, so I told my maid to speak for one directly; and as I cannot look out of my dressing-closet without seeing one farmyard, nor walk in the shrubbery without passing another, I thought it would be only ask and have, and was rather grieved that I could not give the advantage to all.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That will be done by the removal of the farmyard; for, independent of that terrible nuisance, I never saw a house of the kind which had in itself so much the air of a gentleman's residence, so much the look of a something above a mere parsonage-house—above the expenditure of a few hundreds a year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)