the yard or ground near a barn where farm animals live and farmers work with equipment and hay.
Compound of Old English 'bern' (barn, storage place) and 'yard' (enclosed area). The word evolved from Germanic roots meaning a place to store grain, which expanded to include the surrounding work area on farms.
Barnyard animals like chickens and pigs have shaped human civilization for thousands of years—without farms, cities as we know them couldn't exist. The word 'barnyard' captures a whole way of life that dominated human society until about 200 years ago when factories took over.
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