square yard

1. 1.

   a unit of area equal to one yard by one yard square

   Synonymssq yd

   Broaderarea unit

Questions about square yard

What does square yard mean?

square yard means "a unit of area equal to one yard by one yard square".

What is another word for square yard?

Close synonyms include sq yd. 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 square yard a common word?

square 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.