A backyard is an area of land at the back of a house.
2. countable noun [with poss]
If you refer to a country's own backyard, you are referring to its own territory or to somewhere that is very close and where that country wants to influence events.
Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in theirown backyard.
Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, an area that the United States has longregarded as its own backyard.
backyard in American English
(ˈbækˈjɑrd; for adj., ˈbækˌjɑrd)
noun
1.
a yard adjoining the back of a house
also back yard
adjective
2.
of or in a backyard
Examples of 'backyard' in a sentence
backyard
The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.
The Sun (2014)
His eureka moment came a few years ago during a game of backyard cricket.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In other languages
backyard
British English: backyard NOUN
A backyard is an area of land at the back of a house.