front yard
noun
plural front yards
: an area in front of a house
We planted some bushes in the front yard.
Soon, our front yard was a safe haven for our scampering four-year-old, our porch a rustic idyll, our lawn a green and pleasant sward fit for Bambi to gambol on. Paradise.—
Michael Walsh
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Prosecutors accused Read of backing up into O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of a Canton home where the pair was supposed to continue a night out after the bars closed that cold, snowy early January morning.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
So the creekbed was designed to move the water across the front yard and guide it down to the street; any residual water can irrigate the plants.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
In the front yard of his house on the outskirts of downtown Napa, Sevigny watched a honeybee crawl around on the gravel a few feet from its hive.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Fookem’s Fabulous is the brainchild of Joshua Abril, who in 2020 started baking pies at his Coconut Grove home and selling them in his front yard.
—Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
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Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
So the creekbed was designed to move the water across the front yard and guide it down to the street; any residual water can irrigate the plants.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
In the front yard of his house on the outskirts of downtown Napa, Sevigny watched a honeybee crawl around on the gravel a few feet from its hive.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Fookem’s Fabulous is the brainchild of Joshua Abril, who in 2020 started baking pies at his Coconut Grove home and selling them in his front yard.
—Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Front yard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/front%20yard. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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