yards

The word “yards” has 1 syllable: yards

It's pronounced as /jɑrdz/


What is synonym and antonym for yards?

In the thesaurus, “yards” has 144 synonyms and 79 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for yards along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for yards

  • abundances
  • acres
  • armies
  • atria
  • atriums
  • backyards
  • barrels
  • basketfuls
  • basketsful
  • bevies
  • boatloads
  • bonanzas
  • buckets
  • bunches
  • bundles
  • bushels
  • campuses
  • carloads
  • chunks
  • churchyards
  • closes
  • courts
  • courtyards
  • crams
  • crowds
  • crushes
  • curtilages
  • deals
  • decks
  • deluges
  • demesnes
  • dooryards
  • dozen
  • dozens
  • droves
  • embarrassments
  • enclosures
  • epidemics
  • estates
  • excesses
  • fistfuls
  • flocks
  • floods
  • forecourts
  • gallerias
  • gardens
  • garths
  • gazillions
  • gobs
  • good deals
  • grounds
  • heaps
  • herds
  • hordes
  • hosts
  • hundred
  • hundreds
  • inclosures
  • jillions
  • kazillions
  • lands
  • lashings
  • lashins
  • legions
  • loads
  • lots
  • masses
  • messes
  • million
  • millions
  • mobs
  • mountains
  • much
  • multiplicities
  • multitudes
  • myriads
  • oodles
  • overabundances
  • overages
  • overflows
  • overkills
  • overmuch
  • oversupplies
  • packs
  • parcels
  • parks
  • parvises
  • passels
  • patios
  • pecks
  • peristyles
  • piles
  • places
  • plagues
  • platefuls
  • plazas
  • plenitudes
  • plenties
  • plentitudes
  • plethoras
  • plots
  • potfuls
  • pots
  • premises
  • premisses
  • presses
  • profusions
  • properties
  • quadrangles
  • quads
  • quantities
  • quite a bit
  • rafts
  • rashes
  • real estates
  • realties
  • reams
  • redundancies
  • scads
  • scores
  • seas
  • sheaves
  • shiploads
  • sights
  • slews
  • spates
  • squares
  • stacks
  • stores
  • superabundances
  • superfluities
  • surfeits
  • surpluses
  • swarms
  • terraces
  • thousands
  • throngs
  • tons
  • trillions
  • truckloads
  • volumes
  • wads
  • wealths
  • zillions

Antonyms for yards

  • absences
  • aces
  • atoms
  • bits
  • crumbs
  • dabs
  • dashes
  • dearths
  • deficiencies
  • deficits
  • dots
  • drams
  • driblets
  • drops
  • famines
  • flecks
  • flyspecks
  • fragments
  • glimmers
  • grains
  • granules
  • handfuls
  • handsful
  • hints
  • inadequacies
  • insufficiencies
  • iotas
  • jots
  • lacks
  • licks
  • little
  • mites
  • modicums
  • molecules
  • morsels
  • motes
  • mouthfuls
  • nips
  • nubbins
  • ounces
  • particles
  • paucities
  • peanuts
  • pieces
  • pinches
  • pittances
  • portions
  • poverties
  • rays
  • scarcities
  • scintillas
  • scraps
  • scruples
  • sections
  • shades
  • shadows
  • shortages
  • shots
  • shreds
  • smatterings
  • smatters
  • smidgens
  • smidgeons
  • smidges
  • smidgins
  • specks
  • spots
  • sprinkles
  • sprinklings
  • strains
  • streaks
  • suspicions
  • tastes
  • tittles
  • touches
  • traces
  • undersupplies
  • wants
  • whits

Meanings of yards

  • noun
    1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
    2. The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
    3. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
    4. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
    5. One’s house or home.
    6. A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
    7. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
    8. Any spar carried aloft.
    9. A branch, twig, or shoot.
    10. A staff, rod, or stick.
    11. A penis.
    12. 100 dollars.
    13. The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
    14. The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16 1/2 feet.
    15. The rood, area bound by a square rod, 1/4 acre.
    16. 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
    17. The totality of the sailing rig.
  • verb
    1. To confine to a yard.

Example Sentences

  • The football team advanced several yards down the field with each successful play.
  • The real estate listing highlighted the spacious backyard, boasting over 500 square yards.
  • The marathon runner covered the last few yards with a burst of speed to cross the finish line.
  • The construction crew measured the area in square yards before laying the foundation for the new building.
  • The fabric store offered a wide selection of materials, and customers could purchase them by the yards for their sewing projects.

On this page you'll find 223 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to yards, such as: absences, abundances, aces, acres, armies, atoms, atria.

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Related Words

absoluteness

  • actuality
  • aggregate
  • all
  • all-inclusiveness
  • allness
  • authenticity
  • being
  • bottom line
  • brass tacks
  • certainty
  • coherence
  • cohesion
  • collectiveness
  • collectivity
  • completeness
  • complex
  • comprehensiveness
  • concreteness
  • corporeality
  • deed
  • ensemble
  • entireness
  • entirety
  • entity
  • everything
  • exhaustiveness
  • existence
  • extensiveness
  • faultlessness
  • flawlessness
  • fullness
  • genuineness
  • gross
  • how things are
  • inclusiveness
  • indefectibility
  • intactness
  • integrality
  • integrity
  • like it is
  • materiality
  • matter
  • name of the game
  • nuts and bolts
  • object
  • omneity
  • omnitude
  • oneness
  • palpability
  • perceptibility
  • perfection
  • perfectness
  • phenomenon
  • plenitude
  • presence
  • purity
  • real world
  • realism
  • realness
  • sensibility
  • simplicity
  • solidity
  • soundness
  • stability
  • substance
  • substantiality
  • substantive
  • sum
  • sum total
  • tangibility
  • the works
  • thoroughness
  • total
  • totality
  • truth
  • undividedness
  • unity
  • universality
  • validity
  • verisimilitude
  • verity
  • way of it
  • whole ball of wax
  • whole bit
  • whole enchilada
  • whole nine yards
  • wholeness

abundances

  • armies
  • barrels
  • basketfuls
  • basketsful
  • bevies
  • boatloads
  • bonanzas
  • buckets
  • bunches
  • bundles
  • bushels
  • carloads
  • chunks
  • crams
  • crowds
  • crushes
  • deals
  • deluges
  • dozen
  • dozens
  • droves
  • embarrassments
  • epidemics
  • excesses
  • fistfuls
  • flocks
  • floods
  • gazillions
  • gobs
  • good deals
  • heaps
  • herds
  • hordes
  • hosts
  • hundred
  • hundreds
  • jillions
  • kazillions
  • lashings
  • lashins
  • legions
  • loads
  • lots
  • masses
  • messes
  • million
  • millions
  • mobs
  • mountains
  • much
  • multiplicities
  • multitudes
  • myriads
  • oodles
  • overabundances
  • overages
  • overflows
  • overkills
  • overmuch
  • oversupplies
  • packs
  • passels
  • pecks
  • piles
  • plagues
  • platefuls
  • plenitudes
  • plenties
  • plentitudes
  • plethoras
  • potfuls
  • pots
  • presses
  • profusions
  • quantities
  • quite a bit
  • rafts
  • rashes
  • reams
  • redundancies
  • scads
  • scores
  • seas
  • sheaves
  • shiploads
  • sights
  • slews
  • spates
  • stacks
  • stores
  • superabundances
  • superfluities
  • surfeits
  • surpluses
  • swarms
  • thousands
  • throngs
  • tons
  • trillions
  • truckloads
  • volumes
  • wads
  • wealths
  • yards
  • zillions

ball of wax

  • affair
  • business
  • care
  • concern
  • consideration
  • corner
  • crisis
  • crunch
  • deadlock
  • emergency
  • everything but the kitchen sink
  • exigency
  • fix
  • flash point
  • full monty
  • halt
  • head
  • hole
  • hot water
  • impasse
  • issue
  • jam
  • juncture
  • lookout
  • matter
  • nine yards
  • pickle
  • pinch
  • predicament
  • problem
  • responsibility
  • scrape
  • shebang
  • show
  • spot
  • stalemate
  • standstill
  • state of affairs
  • strait
  • the whole shebang
  • thing
  • trouble
  • whole works
  • works
  • worry
  • zero hour

bar

  • acme
  • adversity
  • alehouse
  • apart from
  • apex
  • arbor
  • arrest
  • aside from
  • attorneys
  • average
  • balk
  • ban
  • band
  • banish
  • bank
  • barometer
  • barrelhouse
  • barricade
  • barrier
  • barring
  • barristers
  • barroom
  • batten
  • beam
  • beer garden
  • bench
  • benchmark
  • beside
  • besides
  • billet
  • bistro
  • bit
  • blackball
  • blacklist
  • blank wall
  • blaze
  • block
  • blockade
  • blockage
  • bloom
  • board
  • bolt
  • boom
  • bottle club
  • boycott
  • brake
  • brewpub
  • brick wall
  • bridle
  • burden
  • but
  • cabaret
  • cafe
  • canteen
  • cantina
  • case
  • catch
  • caulk
  • cease
  • chain
  • check
  • check off
  • circumvent
  • clog
  • close
  • close out
  • cocktail lounge
  • condemn
  • constraint
  • counsel
  • counselors
  • court
  • court of law
  • court-martial
  • courtroom
  • cramp
  • criminal court
  • crimp
  • criterion
  • crossbar
  • crossbeam
  • crosspiece
  • crush
  • cumber
  • curb
  • dam
  • danger
  • deadbolt
  • debar
  • delay
  • deny
  • deport
  • deprive
  • deter
  • deterrent
  • difficulty
  • dike
  • disadvantage
  • disallow
  • discontinue
  • discountenance
  • discourage
  • disregard
  • dissuade
  • dive
  • dock
  • drag
  • dramshop
  • drawback
  • drift
  • drinkery
  • drumhead court-martial
  • eliminate
  • embankment
  • embargo
  • embarrassment
  • encumbrance
  • enjoin
  • example
  • except
  • except for
  • excepting
  • exclude
  • excluding
  • exclusive of
  • excommunicate
  • exile
  • expel
  • fasten
  • fence
  • fetter
  • forbid
  • forum
  • freeze out
  • frustrate
  • gate
  • gin mill
  • girder
  • gold standard
  • grade
  • grogshop
  • guard
  • halt
  • handicap
  • hardship
  • hazard
  • heap
  • hedge
  • high court
  • hill
  • hinder
  • hindrance
  • hitch
  • hobble
  • holdback
  • holdup
  • hurdle
  • impede
  • impediment
  • ingot
  • inhibit
  • inhibition
  • inn
  • inquisition
  • instance
  • interdict
  • interfere
  • interference
  • jam
  • joint
  • judgment
  • judicatory
  • judicature
  • judiciary
  • jurists
  • kangaroo court
  • keep out
  • latch
  • law
  • law court
  • law practice
  • lawyers
  • legal profession
  • let
  • lever
  • limit
  • load
  • lock
  • lounge
  • manacle
  • mark
  • mass
  • measure
  • meridian
  • metric
  • mound
  • mountain
  • nightclub
  • norm
  • obstacle
  • obstruct
  • obstruction
  • obviate
  • ostracize
  • other than
  • oust
  • outlaw
  • outside
  • outside of
  • override
  • package store
  • pale
  • paling
  • par
  • peak
  • peril
  • pig
  • pinnacle
  • pinstripe
  • plug
  • pole
  • preclude
  • prevent
  • prohibit
  • proscribe
  • pub
  • public house
  • put down
  • quash
  • quell
  • rail
  • railing
  • rathskeller
  • reef
  • refuse
  • rein
  • reject
  • repress
  • repudiate
  • restrain
  • restraint
  • rib
  • road block
  • roadhouse
  • rod
  • rub
  • rule
  • rule out
  • saloon
  • sandbar
  • save
  • saving
  • seal
  • secure
  • segregate
  • shackles
  • shaft
  • shut out
  • silence
  • slab
  • snag
  • snowbank
  • snowdrift
  • solicitors
  • spar
  • speakeasy
  • spoke
  • sports bar
  • squash
  • squelch
  • stack
  • stake
  • stall
  • standard
  • stave off
  • stick
  • stone wall
  • stop
  • stoppage
  • streak
  • strip
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • stumbling block
  • subdue
  • summit
  • suppress
  • supreme court
  • suspend
  • tap
  • taproom
  • tavern
  • throw out
  • touchstone
  • trammel
  • traverse
  • tribunal
  • tuft
  • veto
  • wall
  • watering hole
  • watering place
  • wineshop
  • yardstick
  • zenith

byword

  • abstract
  • acme
  • adage
  • aphorism
  • apophthegm
  • apothegm
  • apotheosis
  • archetype
  • avatar
  • axiom
  • beau ideal
  • benchmark
  • bromide
  • catchphrase
  • catchword
  • classic
  • cliche
  • comment
  • commonplace
  • criterion
  • dictum
  • embodier
  • embodiment
  • epigram
  • epithet
  • epitome
  • exemplar
  • expression
  • felicity
  • formula
  • gnome
  • gnomic saying
  • handle
  • height
  • ideal
  • incarnation
  • incorporation
  • last word
  • manifestation
  • maxim
  • meridian
  • model
  • motto
  • nickname
  • nonpareil
  • note
  • paradigm
  • paragon
  • perfection
  • personification
  • platitude
  • precept
  • prototype
  • proverb
  • quintessence
  • reflection
  • remark
  • saw
  • saying
  • sententia
  • shibboleth
  • slogan
  • standard
  • standing joke
  • touchstone
  • truism
  • truth
  • ultimate
  • wheeze
  • word
  • yardstick
  • zenith

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