Thesaurus results for BACKYARD

backyard 1 of 2

noun

ˈbak-ˈyärd

Definition of backyard next

as in vicinity

an adjoining region or space shocked to learn that the wind farm would be right in our own backyard

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backyard

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adjective

as in amateur

being such only for recreation an orchid that is a favorite with backyard horticulturists

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Recent Examples of backyard

Noun

Following his arrest in 2023, detectives spent nearly two weeks scouring the backyard of Heuermann’s family home. —

Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026 Perhaps your backyard is verdant but not pristine, with spots of flowering weeds. —

Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2026

Adjective

The agency is concerned that some wild birds, geese, backyard domestic fowl and commercial poultry flocks may have contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, which is contagious among bird populations. —

Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Dec. 2025 The virus can spread easily when infected wild birds mix with commercial or backyard flocks. —

NPR, 6 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for backyard

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The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside — but for the Artemis II astronauts, the capsule taking them to the vicinity of the moon has already proved to be larger than life.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
Its four astronauts—NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen—successfully traveled around the moon, returning humans to the lunar vicinity for the first time in more than a half-century.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026