playground vs yard

yard vs playground

playground and yard both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
playground	Yes	No	No	No
yard	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, yard is a hypernym of playground; that is, yard is a word with a broader meaning than playground:

playground: yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play
yard: the enclosed land around a house or other building

Other hypernyms of playground include curtilage, grounds.

playground (noun)	yard (noun)
yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play	an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
an area where many people go for recreation, holidays or other purposes	a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
	the enclosed land around a house or other building
	an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
	a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
	a tract of land where logs are accumulated
	a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
	a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
	the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

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