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/ˈfɑɹmˌjɑɹd/ · noun
(agriculture) The area of a farm, excluding the fields, usually surrounded by or adjacent to farm buildings..
"Where's Kipper?" I asked, and was surprised to note that Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature. "Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.
The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.
Use farmyard when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Farmyard means (agriculture) The area of a farm, excluding the fields, usually surrounded by or adjacent to farm buildings..
Common synonyms include barnyard.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Where's Kipper?" I asked, and was surprised to note that Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature. "Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.
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