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farmyard Definition

farm·yard (-yärd′)

noun

the yard surrounding or enclosed by the farm buildings

farmyard Synonyms

farmyard

n.

barnyard, yard, enclosure, farmstead, barns, ranchyard, corral, farm buildings, buildings, grange, toft, messuage; see also farm.

farmyard Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • animal: There's a whole farmyard of animals to choose from.

Converse of object

  • enter: At the end it appears to enter a farmyard.
  • make: SB spent the rest of the afternoon engrossed with playdough, making a farmyard and a complicated story to go with it.
  • work: Infants welcome however, no children under five due to proximity of working farmyard.
  • overlook: The Oast is peacefully situated overlooking the farmyard at the end of a long private farm lane.
  • cobble: Part of a working farm, it is attached to the main farmhouse and fronts the cobbled farmyard.
  • surround: It stood to the south of the village in a farmyard surrounded by low outbuildings.

Preposition: with

  • donkey: Children's play area and farmyard with donkeys, pigs and sheep.

Adjective modifier

  • former: The dining area looks out across the former farmyard with a view down the valley.
  • original: Outside there is ample car parking space which formed part of the original farmyard.
  • old: The approach is down an attractive farm lane which leads into the old farmyard with plenty of parking space.
  • Victorian: Hendre is a Grade 2* listed Victorian farmyard located between the sea and the mountains on the beautiful North Wales coast.
  • same: Within the cottage, there is an exhibition of his life and works in the same farmyard setting in which he was raised.
  • traditional: The local community accepted traditional farmyard smells but we've never suffered anything like the revolting reek we regularly suffer now.

Modifies a noun

  • manure: In autumn you can spread farmyard manure which can be lightly worked into the soil later, in spring.
  • animal: I can hear the sound of the farmyard animals, coming to see us.
  • noise: He can also provide remarkable impressions of farmyard noises.
  • scene: They use an art package to create a farmyard scene, choosing appropriate animals and placing them onto a background.
  • friend: Small bags of feed are on sale for all to enjoy contact with our farmyard friends.
  • chicken: However - their food varies from insects to game and farmyard chickens - one reason for their persecution.
farmyard Quotes

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

—Shaw, George Bernard

She understood how much louder a cockcan crow in its own farmyard then elsewhere.

—Trollope, Anthony

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