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n. a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)

n. the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"

n. your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling"

dregs

n. sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid

holding, property, belonging, material possession

n. something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property";

acreage, land area

n. an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming); "he wanted some acreage to build on"

wealth, riches

n. an abundance of material possessions and resources

ownership

n. the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others

patio, terrace

n. usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence

lawn

n. a field of cultivated and mowed grass

yard

n. a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"

court, courtroom

n. a room in which a lawcourt sits; "television cameras were admitted in the courtroom"

deck

n. a porch that resembles the deck on a ship

porch

n. a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance

veranda, verandah, gallery

n. a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

balcony

n. an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium

check, confirmation, verification, substantiation

n. additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"

validation, establishment

n. the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof

ground, reason

n. a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"

impurity, dross

n. worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"

waste, waste material, waste matter

n. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"

residue

n. matter that remains after something has been removed

rest, remainder, residue, residuum

n. something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"

rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail

n. disparaging terms for the common people

lower class

n. the social class lowest in the social hierarchy

garbage, refuse, scraps, food waste

n. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

scum, trash

n. worthless people

compound, chemical compound

n. (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight

alloy

n. a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper"

amalgam, dental amalgam

n. an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams

park, green, commons, common

n. a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"

court, courtyard

n. an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings; "the house was built around an inner court"

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