door-yardn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: door n., yard n.¹

Etymology: < door n. + yard n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdoor-yard.

U.S.

A yard or garden-patch about the door of a house.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] > (back or front) yard

yardOE

backside1450

stead1546

outyard1600

lot1657

backyard1659

outlet1667

area1712

back lot1714

backlet1724

door-yardc1764

front yard1767

rear yard1800

tenement yard1874

sitooterie1994

c1764 in T. D. Woolsey Hist. Disc. (1850) 54 The Freshmen ..are forbidden to wear their hats..in the front door~yard of the President's or Professor's house.

1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 59 The flowers which decked his little door-yard.

1878 Emerson in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 412 We send to England for shrubs, which grow as well in our own door~yards and cow-pastures.

1913 R. Frost Boy's Will 9 How drifts are piled, Dooryard and road ungraded.

1941 T. S. Eliot Dry Salvages i. 7 The rank ailanthus of the April dooryard.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	door-yard
释义	door-yardn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: door n., yard n.¹ Etymology: < door n. + yard n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdoor-yard. U.S. A yard or garden-patch about the door of a house. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] > (back or front) yard yardOE backside1450 stead1546 outyard1600 lot1657 backyard1659 outlet1667 area1712 back lot1714 backlet1724 door-yardc1764 front yard1767 rear yard1800 tenement yard1874 sitooterie1994 c1764 in T. D. Woolsey Hist. Disc. (1850) 54 The Freshmen ..are forbidden to wear their hats..in the front door~yard of the President's or Professor's house. 1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 59 The flowers which decked his little door-yard. 1878 Emerson in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 412 We send to England for shrubs, which grow as well in our own door~yards and cow-pastures. 1913 R. Frost Boy's Will 9 How drifts are piled, Dooryard and road ungraded. 1941 T. S. Eliot Dry Salvages i. 7 The rank ailanthus of the April dooryard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1764
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