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Definition of Dooryard

1. Noun. A yard outside the front or rear door of a house.

Definition of Dooryard

1. n. A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

Definition of Dooryard

1. a yard in front of a house [n -S]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dooryard

doors doorsill doorsills doorsman doorsmen doorstep doorsteps doorstop doorstop doorstopper

doorstops doorway doorways doorwoman doorwomen dooryard (current term) dooryards door guard door latch door prize

doos Doose syndrome doowop doowops doozer doozers doozie doozies doozy dop

Literary usage of Dooryard

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1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"3 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white- wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, ..."

2. American Poems, 1776-1900: With Notes and Biographies by Augustus While Long (1905)
"WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE dooryard BLOOM'D WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard ... that will not free my soul I In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse, ..."

3. Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman, Oscar Lovell Triggs (1898)
"MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE dooryard BLOOM'DI When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the ..."

4. Luther Burbank, His Life and Work: His Life and Work by Henry Smith Williams (1915)
"It deals not alone with the lawn itself, but with the bed flowers and ornamental vines that beautify the dooryard. Mr. Burbank has produced wonderful new ..."

5. American Poems (1625-1892) by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1912)
"WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOOR YARD BLOOM'D When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, ..."

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