1. the yards or areas immediately surrounding the entrance to a house or building
Usage: plural form of dooryard; chiefly American

Examples

• The children played in the dooryards of their neighborhood homes.
• Flowers bloomed in the well-tended dooryards along the street.
• The mail carrier walked through several dooryards to deliver packages.
• Old New England houses often had small, fenced dooryards.
• The poet wrote about lilacs blooming in dooryards across America.
• Neighbors gathered in their dooryards to chat in the evening.