Definition of Dooryard

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

Generic synonyms: Curtilage, Grounds, Yard

Definition of Dooryard

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

Definition of Dooryard

1. Noun. the yard near the front or back door of a house ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dooryard

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dooryard

doorsteads
doorstep
doorstepped
doorstepping
doorsteps
doorstone
doorstones
doorstop
doorstopper
doorstoppers
doorstops
doorway
doorways
doorwoman
doorwomen
dooryard (current term)
dooryards
doosed
doosh
doosra
doosras
doot
dootsie
dooty
doowop
doowops
doozer
doozers
doozie

Literary usage of Dooryard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

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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