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say it: yahrd
yard is a noun meaning "a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride". It is pronounced /ˈjɑɹd/ — yahrd. It carries 9 recorded senses.
the enclosed land around a house or other building
“it was a small house with almost no yard”
a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
“they opened a repair yard on the edge of town”
a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
a tract of land where logs are accumulated
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.