front yard

noun

plural front yards

: an area in front of a house

We planted some bushes in the front yard.

Soon, our front yard was a safe haven for our scampering four-year-old, our porch a rustic idyll, our lawn a green and pleasant sward fit for Bambi to gambol on. Paradise.

—Michael Walsh

Examples of front yard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Prosecutors accused Read of backing up into O’Keefe, her Boston Police officer boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of the Canton home then-owned by Brian Albert, a Boston Police colleague. —Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 26 Nov. 2025

He was jumped in his own front yard, punched and kicked. —Allen Devlin, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025

On a recent morning before work, Heyne recently looked at poster boards in the front yard of her South Sacramento home, tears running down her cheeks. —Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 24 Nov. 2025

Suresh allegedly chased Brimmer into another nearby home with a knife, slashed him in the kitchen and stalked the bloody man to the front yard before fatally stabbing him several times. —Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 22 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1740, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for front yard

• asgard
• backyard
• barnyard
• blackguard
• bombard
• brickyard
• canard
• churchyard
• coastguard
• courtyard
• debarred
• diehard