0 a small space surrounded by walls at the back of a house, usually with a hard surface:
1 the area behind a house, or more generally, an area near the place you live:
2 in the area where you live, or in your area of interest or activity:
The understandable interests of people relate to their backyards and their immediate environment.
The victims of these criminal offences can also be found in our own backyards.
We do not need to be lectured about democracy by those who have plenty of homework to do in their own backyards.
Rubbish is often found strewn around the streets and backyards in these districts.
Apart from their having extremely minute backyards, they could be called back-to-back houses.
I know that generally more and more people are vigilant about the condition of animals they see in backyards, fields and elsewhere.
I am sure there will be many dishes in backyards picking up programmes from all over the world.
At any rate, in the old days one could get in touch with the little backyards and find out what was happening.
