Other forms: farmyards
A farmyard is the open area surrounded by farm buildings. Across the farmyard, a muddy farmyard, farmyard animals.
It is the working heart of a farm, with the barn, the byre and the house around it, and it is where everything happens. Farmyard animals is the phrase in children's books for the whole cast: cow, pig, sheep, hen and duck.
1nounfarmyardThe open area surrounded by farm buildings.
“Chickens were pecking around the muddy farmyard in front of the barn.”
farmyard is a yard.
Farm plus yard. Farm comes from Latin firma, a fixed payment, since a farm was first a leasehold.
From farm + yard.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA