What is another word for backyards?

Pronunciation: [bˈakjɑːdz] (IPA)

Backyards, also known as back gardens or rear gardens, are outdoor spaces that can serve as a retreat from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Other synonyms for backyards include backyards, lawn, yard, courtyard, and patios. A courtyard is a paved outdoor area that is open to the sky and surrounded by walls or buildings, while a patio is a paved area adjacent to the house. A lawn is a grassy expanse, and a yard can be any outdoor space surrounding a house, including a garden, driveway, or storage area. Whatever the name, these outdoor spaces provide a place for families and friends to gather and enjoy the beauty of nature.

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Usage examples for Backyards

Those on the seaward side are built right on to the water so that many of them have ladders hanging from their backyards by which the men can climb down into their boats.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
Was it any wonder that some of these young men who had laughed on the way to Waterloo Station, and held their heads high in the admiring gaze of London crowds, sure of their own heroism, slunk now in the backyards of French farmhouses, hid behind hedges when men in khaki passed, and told wild, incoherent tales, when cornered at last by some cold-eyed officer in some town of France to which they had blundered?
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
I was still groping towards the heart of the business and wandering in its backyards.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Backyards

  • People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
    John Betjeman
  • I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
    Caroline B. Cooney
  • There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.
    Gore Vidal
  • We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
    Norman Mailer
  • Why is it that people want so desperately to shake hands with otherworldly beings? That people will even insist that they have seen visitors from Spica hovering above their backyards? In other times it was ghosts and fairies and goblins, and voices in the night. Is the company of our own species so dull that we need to invent the Other? On the other hand, maybe that explains it.
    Jack McDevitt

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