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

The prosecution claims Read struck O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV in a drunken argument, leaving him to freeze to death in the front yard of a friend’s house party shortly after midnight on Jan. 29, 2022. —Julia Bonavita , Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2025

Officers also found a man suffering from fatal gunshot wounds in the front yard of the home where the suspect was found. —Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025

Flanigan, a mother of three, was accused of fatally stabbing her eldest daughter, Sophia Rose, in the front yard of their Moore Park Beach home in Central Queensland on Monday, May 26. —Toria Sheffield, People.com, 2 June 2025

The tree in the victim’s front yard stood intact, with structural debris, a blanket and a flannel coat still hanging from the branches. —Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 1 June 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