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
Michael Walsh
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With an excess to share, the Cascos began holding dinners in the front yard every evening.
—Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
Doorbell camera surveillance footage revealed a vehicle pulling into his driveway, driving across his front yard and running over the boxes.
—John Benson, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
The one-room house in the family’s front yard – made of concrete and nylon – includes a cramped kitchenette and small toilet.
—Issam Adwan, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2023
The duo envisioned building a treehouse between an oak and a strangler fig tree in the front yard.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
At the Charlotte Court housing project in Lexington, Kentucky, the apartment complexes were all the same, the front yards bare dirt with patches of grass.
—Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
Add a towering ghost and a hovering witch to your front yard welcoming party, and trick-or-treaters will flock to your door.
—Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
Earlier this summer, as a brutal heat dome settled over Texas, the large pecan tree in my front yard started dropping limbs.
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
The shooting Officers called to the 7100 block of Pluto Drive on a report of a person shot found Ross in the front yard of a home.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
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Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
Doorbell camera surveillance footage revealed a vehicle pulling into his driveway, driving across his front yard and running over the boxes.
—John Benson, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
The one-room house in the family’s front yard – made of concrete and nylon – includes a cramped kitchenette and small toilet.
—Issam Adwan, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2023
The duo envisioned building a treehouse between an oak and a strangler fig tree in the front yard.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
At the Charlotte Court housing project in Lexington, Kentucky, the apartment complexes were all the same, the front yards bare dirt with patches of grass.
—Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
Add a towering ghost and a hovering witch to your front yard welcoming party, and trick-or-treaters will flock to your door.
—Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
Earlier this summer, as a brutal heat dome settled over Texas, the large pecan tree in my front yard started dropping limbs.
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
The shooting Officers called to the 7100 block of Pluto Drive on a report of a person shot found Ross in the front yard of a home.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1741, in the meaning defined above
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“Front yard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/front%20yard. Accessed 30 Sep. 2023.
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