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Curtilage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Law The enclosed area immediately surrounding a house or dwelling.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the area immediately surrounding a house. Contains either no roof, or areas within the roof to see inside.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In law, the area of land occupied by a dwelling and its yard and outbuildings, and inclosed, or deemed as if inclosed, for their better use and enjoyment.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the enclosed land around a house or other building

Word Usage

"The courts have long held that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a fancy legal term for the area around the home."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

field

Hyponym

playground side yard front yard dooryard backyard

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

court