Definition of "front yard" []

• A yard in front of a house. (noun)

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• "The pines in the front yard had been cut, leaving stumps that stuck up like giant mushrooms; and like the blue caterpillar perched on the mushroom inAlice's Adventures in Wonderland,empty blue oil cans sat on the stumps."
• "Dad stood on the porch with the .22rifle and Uncle Jake crouched behind a cedar tree in the front yard with his pocket model Colt .25."
• "It was also, Carly Linton discovered as she paused to catch her breath beside the huge birch that had anchored the front yard for as long as she could remember, not quite as dead asleep as such a small town should have been at so late an hour."