In British English, the term for the area behind a house is usually the back garden, while a paved-over, utilitarian space might be called a backyard, though "garden" (front/back) is more common for green areas where plants grow, whereas "yard" often implies hard surfaces for parking/storage, differing from the American "yard" covering all outdoor space.
A backyard, or back yard (known in the United Kingdom as a back garden or just garden), is a yard at the back of a house, common in suburban developments in the Western world.
The term "yard" is derived from the British word "milliard," which also means one billion. Yard is primarily used by currency traders to simplify trades and avoid miscommunication. With electronic trading, the use of financial slang like "yard" is declining but remains in some areas.
In the UK and Ireland (and probably Australia, New Zealand etc?) an enclosed piece of grassy land next to a house is called a "garden", whether or not any flowers or vegetables are being grown there. In the USA and Canada, this would generally be called a "yard".
5 Ways British and American Yards (Gardens) Are Very Different
What is a yard in the UK called?
In British English, these areas would usually be described as a garden, similarly subdivided into a front garden and a back garden. The term yard is reserved for a hard surfaced area usually enclosed or at least with limited access.
The same dictionary also states that the American English term for the yard behind the house is "back garden", whereas in British it's "backyard". This means that in American English, it's front yard and back garden, and in British English it's front garden and backyard.
A driveway (also called drive in UK English) is a private road for local access to one or a small group of structures owned and maintained by an individual or group. Driveways rarely have traffic lights, but some may if they handle heavy traffic, especially those leading to commercial businesses or parks.
The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (French: Jardin à l'anglaise; Italian: Giardino all'inglese; German: Englischer Landschaftsgarten; Portuguese: Jardim inglês; Spanish: Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th ...
The open "English style" of parkland first spread across Britain and Ireland, and then across Europe, such as the garden à la française being replaced by the French landscape garden. By this time, the word "lawn" in England had semantically shifted to describe a piece of a garden covered with grass and closely mown.
In the most innocuous sense, "yardie" can simply refer to a Jamaican national; as "yard" can mean "home" in Jamaican Patois, Jamaican expatriates who moved abroad to countries such as the U.K. and U.S. would often refer to themselves and other Jamaicans as "yardies".
Yard. Slang for one billion currency units. Used particularly in currency trading, e.g., for Japanese yen since one billion yen equals approximately US$10 million.
It is called a sidewalk in American English, but can also be called a pavement (mainly British English and South African English), a footpath (Australian English, Irish English, Indian English and New Zealand English) or footway (Engineering term). A pavement (UK), sidewalk (CA, US), or footpath (AU, IE, IN, NZ).
The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meter. A distance of 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile.
