backyard

Plural

backyards

1. 1.A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.

   • I think when I discovered this republic, which is in Nevada - in one man's house and backyard and front garden - I think I stumbled across what for me really typifies the whole micronational movement.

2. 2.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.(colloquial)

   • The entire beach was my backyard, from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north.

3. 3.An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.(colloquial)

   • 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.

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