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curtilage

noun
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As a noun, curtilage means the area immediately surrounding a house, especially dooryard areas and sometimes including closely associated buildings and structures.

Meanings of curtilage

2 meanings

noun

  1. legalThe area immediately surrounding a house, especially dooryard areas and sometimes including closely associated buildings and structures.

  2. The enclosed land around a house or other building

    “it was a small house with almost no yard”

    Similar: yard, grounds

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: the enclosed land around a house or other building
yardgrounds

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