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yard
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /j??d/
- (General American) enPR: yärd, IPA(key): /j??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English yerd, yard, ?erd, ?eard, from Old English ?eard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure, enclosed place, court, residence, dwelling, home, region, land; hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Dutch gaard, obsolete German Gart, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål gård, Norwegian Nynorsk gard), from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?- (“to enclose”) (Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian ?????? (górod, “town”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard, Avestan ????????????????????????????? (g?r?dha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit ??? (g?ha)), Medieval Latin gardinus, Medieval Latin jardinus. Doublet of garden.
Noun
yard (plural yards)
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- Synonym: (UK) garden
- An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (Jamaican, MLE) One’s house or home.
Derived terms
See also Yard
Translations
Verb
yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)
- (transitive) To confine to a yard.
Etymology 2
From Middle English ?erde, yerd, ?erd, from Old English ?ierd (“branch; rod, staff; measuring stick; yardland”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga?d, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz. Cognate with Dutch gard (“twig”), German Gerte and probably related to Latin hasta (“spear”).
Noun
yard (plural yards)
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
- (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
- (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
- (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
- a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:
- You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
- a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:
- (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16 1?2 feet.
- (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, 1?4 acre.
Synonyms
- (arm length): See ell
- ($100): See hundred
- (surveying measure): See rod
- (large unit of area): See virgate
- (small unit of area): See rood
Hypernyms
- (unit of area): See virgate
Hyponyms
- (unit of area): See virgate
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of milliard.
Noun
yard (plural yards)
- (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- I need to hedge a yard of yen.
References
Anagrams
- Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray
Czech
Noun
yard m
- yard (unit of length)
Further reading
- yard in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- yard in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From English yard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja?d/
Noun
yard m (plural yards)
- yard (unit of length)
Further reading
- “yard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From English yard
Noun
yard f (plural yards)
- yard (unit of length)
- Synonym: iarda
Further reading
- yard in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
- yaad, yawd
Etymology
From English yard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j??d/, /j??d/
- Hyphenation: yard
Noun
yard
- home
Noun
yard (plural: yard dem, quantified: yard)
- yard
Further reading
- Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 617
Middle English
Noun
yard
- Alternative form of yerd
yard From the web:
- = 0.9144 meters
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piazza
English
Etymology
From Italian piazza. Doublet of piatza, place, and plaza.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /pi?æt.s?/, /pi??t.s?/
- (US) (veranda): IPA(key): /pi?æ.z?/, /pi??.z?/
Noun
piazza (plural piazzas or piazze)
- A public square, especially in Italian cities.
- (US dialects, especially New England, dated) A veranda; a porch.
- (Britain) A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building).
Usage notes
- The plural piazze is used especially when the word refers to public squares in Italy, and plural piazzas when it refers to porches.
- In some Southern dialects, the variant form pizer is used.
References
- Thomas Durant Visser, Porches of North America (2012, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- apizza
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pjat.t?sa/
- Hyphenation: piàz?za
- Rhymes: -attsa
Etymology 1
From Latin platea, from Ancient Greek ??????? (plateîa). Doublet of platea. Cognate with Spanish plaza, French place, German platz.
Noun
piazza f (plural piazze)
- square, plaza
- market
- space, post
- (Rome, figuratively) A bald area on the scalp.
Synonyms
- (market): mercato
- (bald spot): chierica
Derived terms
- mettere in piazza
- piazzale
- piazzetta
Descendants
- ? English: piazza
- ? Romanian: pia??
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
piazza
- third-person singular present indicative of piazzare
- second-person singular imperative of piazzare
Anagrams
- pazzia
piazza From the web:
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