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

Fookem’s Fabulous is the brainchild of Joshua Abril, who in 2020 started baking pies at his Coconut Grove home and selling them in his front yard. —Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025

Drummond took the infant without consent and had the baby with him for hours until the child was dropped off in the front yard of a home in the afternoon, Goodman, the district attorney, told the judge. —Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025

While Hazel Avenue is a busy street, traffic cannot be heard from inside the house and is muffled in the front yard. —David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025

Kemp put seeds in the front yard to see whether grass or natives would prevail during last year's drought. —Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 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