1. a yard or area immediately adjacent to the door of a house
Usage: chiefly American

Examples

• The children played in the dooryard while their mother watched from the porch.
• She planted flowers in the dooryard to welcome visitors.
• The old oak tree shaded the entire dooryard.
• He swept the leaves from the dooryard every morning.
• The dooryard was enclosed by a white picket fence.
• Chickens pecked for grain in the farmhouse dooryard.