noun
- the yards or areas immediately surrounding the entrance to a house or building
Usage: plural form of dooryard; chiefly American
Examples
- The children played in the dooryards of their neighborhood homes.
- Flowers bloomed in the well-tended dooryards along the street.
- The mail carrier walked through several dooryards to deliver packages.
- Old New England houses often had small, fenced dooryards.
- The poet wrote about lilacs blooming in dooryards across America.
- Neighbors gathered in their dooryards to chat in the evening.