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area of land immediately adjacent to a building or a group of buildings

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A subdivision backyard (American English) A yard in a rural town in Germany (Hildesheim Börde)

A yard is an area of land immediately adjacent to one or more buildings. It may be either enclosed or open. The word may come from the same linguistic root as the word garden (Proto-Indo-European gher "to grasp, enclose") and has many of the same meanings.

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