Courtyard vs Backyard - What's the difference?
courtyard | backyard |
an area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings
A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
(colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
* {{quote-book, year=2005
, author=Christopher Kennedy Lawford
, title=Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption
, page=18
(colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisidiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
* {{quote-book, year=1942
, year_published=
, author=Wilfrid Hardy Callcott
, title=The Caribbean policy of the United States, 1890-1920
, page=343
As nouns the difference between courtyard and backyard
is that courtyard is an area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings while backyard is a yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.courtyard
English
(wikipedia courtyard)Noun
(en noun)- She sat in the courtyard , enjoying the garden.
See also
* atrium * forecourt * court * yardbackyard
English
Alternative forms
* back-yard, back yardNoun
(en noun)citation, isbn=0060732482, 9780060732486 , passage=The entire beach was my backyard , from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north.}}
citation, passage=However, the region was in the United States backyard and Britain should look passively on with acquiescence in whatever policy the United States saw fit to pursue about Mexico.}}
