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

At that house, 911 calls reporting guns and parties were frequent, and over a dozen vehicles were parked in the front yard. —Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026

For nearly a decade, Denver resident Vinny Del Giudice admired the sculpture that stood in the front yard of his Congress Park home. —Brian Maass, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026

Freddie Montgomery recounted seeing a man in the front yard of the house and the children playing outside on the day before the tragedy. —Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026

Still others turn their front yards into meadows of wildflowers (though some homeowners' associations forbid that). —Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026

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