1. n. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building (Wikipedia).
2. n. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
3. n. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
4. n. (Jamaica) One’s house or home.
5. v. To confine to a yard.
6. n. 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. n. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
8. n. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
9. n. (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hu
10. n. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
11. n. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
12. n. (obsolete, medical) A penis.
13. n. (US, slang) 100 dollars.
14. n. (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
15. n. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16½ feet.
16. n. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¼ acre.
17. n. (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
1. n. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
The girls were playing in the court.
2. n. (US, Australia) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
3. n. (social) Royal society.
4. n. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
The noblemen visited the queen in her court.
5. n. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state
The queen and her court traveled to the city to welcome back the soldiers.
6. n. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
7. n. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
8. n. (law) The administration of law.
9. n. The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
Many famous criminals have been put on trial in this court.
10. n. The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, le
The court started proceedings at 11 o'clock.
11. n. A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
12. n. The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
13. n. The session of a judicial assembly.
The court is now in session.
14. n. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
15. n. (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
The local sports club has six tennis courts and two squash courts.
The shuttlecock landed outside the court.
16. v. To seek to achieve or win.
He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.
17. v. To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
He courted controversy with his frank speeches.
18. v. To try to win a commitment to marry from.
19. v. To engage in behavior leading to mating.
The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.
20. v. To attempt to attract.
21. v. To attempt to gain alliance with.
22. v. (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
She's had a few beaus come courting.
23. v. (intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.
In this season, you can see many animals courting.
24. v. To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
1. n. An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings.
She sat in the courtyard, enjoying the garden.
ward
1. n. Endroit protégé, comme la cour d'un château, les quartiers d'une prison, etc.
2. n. Partie d'un hôpital où résident les patients.
The doctor made his rounds in the hospital wards.
3. n. Circonscription électorale.
In New York City, the voting districts were numbered, such as the fifth ward.
4. n. (Droit) Pupille, enfant en tutelle.
The orphan was declared a ward of the court.
5. n. (Vieilli) Garde, protection, défense.
The talisman is a ward against evil.
6. v. (Arch) Garder, protéger.
ward
1. n. (archaic, or obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.
2. n. Protection, defence.
3. n. (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
4. n. The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.).
5. n. Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
6. n. An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching or even from being ab
7. n. (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
8. n. (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
9. n. A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
10. n. (archaic) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
11. n. A section or subdivision of a prison.
12. n. An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor's palace.
13. n. (UK) A division of a forest.
14. n. (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
15. n. A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
16. n. A person under guardianship.
17. n. A minor looked after by a guardian.
After the trial, little Robert was declared a ward of the state.
18. n. (obsolete) An underage orphan.
19. n. An object used for guarding.
20. n. The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
21. v. To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
22. v. To defend, to protect.
23. v. To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
24. v. (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
25. v. (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
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