On a residential area, a front yard or front garden is the portion of land between the street and the front of the house. If it is covered in grass, it may be referred to as a front lawn. The area behind the house, usually more private, is the back yard or back garden. Yard and garden share an etymology and have overlapping meanings.
A typical suburban front yard in mid-1980s Greenwood, Indiana, United States.
The fenced front yard of a house in Brewarrina, Australia, with an Australiana painted-tyre-swan lawn ornament.
A yard is an area of land immediately adjacent to one or more buildings. It may be either enclosed or open. The word may come from the same linguistic root as the word garden and has many of the same meanings.
A subdivision backyard (American English)
A yard in a rural town in Germany (Hildesheim Börde)
Grass-fed cattle, saleyards, Walcha, NSW