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Look up <i>backyard</i> or <i>back yard</i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. <p>A backyard, or back yard (known in the United Kingdom as a back garden or just <a href="/facts/Garden/HMvxMDLB">garden</a>), is a <a href="/facts/Yard_(land)/mk7Pj5JY">yard</a> at the back of a <a href="/facts/House/fdDCUhyD">house</a>, common in suburban developments in the Western world. </p><p>It is typically <a href="/facts/Residential_garden/n2TIDXJs">residential garden</a> located at the rear of a property, on the other side of the <a href="/facts/House/fdDCUhyD">house</a> from the <a href="/facts/Front_yard/V5H9DLbe">front yard</a>. While Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, the "garden" (which etymologically may imply a shorthand of <a href="/facts/Botanical_garden/dvg8YkRq">botanical garden</a>) may use plants sparsely or not at all. Hence, the terms <i>yard</i> and <i>garden</i> are for the context of this article interchangeable in most cases. </p>