Definizione monolingua

backyard

backyard (plural backyards)

1. A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
2. (colloquial) A persons neighborhood, or an area nearby to a persons usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
   • 2005, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption^[1], ISBN 0060732482, 9780060732486, page 18:

     The entire beach was my backyard, from the Hiltons house in the south all the way to Steele Hunters house in the north.

3. (colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisidictions legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
   • 1942, Wilfrid Hardy Callcott, The Caribbean policy of the United States, 1890-1920^[2], page 343:

     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.

Definizione dizionario backyard

Altri significati:

(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.

(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.

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

yard to the rear of a house