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Yard

proper nouncommon in dialogue

Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard

proper noun

  1. 1

    Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard

    'Suppose we walk across to Scotland Yard, and you can tell me on the way.' At the corner of Derby Street they encountered two men who had just turned out of the Yard.

  2. 2

    figurativeThe Metropolitan Police Service

  3. 3

    Jamaica

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).