BACKYARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does backyard mean? 

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

1. the grounds in back of a house

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACKYARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The grounds in back of a house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

curtilage; grounds; yard (the enclosed land around a house or other building)

 Context examples 

But what they learn about the forces driving Jupiter's auroras and shaping its space weather environment also has practical implications in our own planetary backyard.

(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)

The direct sighting of LB-1 proves that this population of over-massive stellar black holes exists even in our own backyard.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It would have been better, as it turned out, to have led gently up to this announcement, for Mrs. Micawber, being in a delicate state of health, was overcome by it, and was taken so unwell, that Mr. Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Amateur astronomers may contribute more observations, but the asteroid will be very difficult for backyard astronomers to see, as current estimates are that it will reach a visual magnitude of only about 17 at its brightest, and it will be moving very fast across the sky.

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)