cubic yard

1. 1.

   a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

   Synonymsyard

   Broadervolume unit

Questions about cubic yard

What does cubic yard mean?

cubic yard means "a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)".

What is another word for cubic yard?

Close synonyms include yard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cubic yard a common word?

cubic yard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.