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Curtilage (noun) means (law) The land and buildings right around a house that legally count as part of the property.

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(law) The land and buildings right around a house that legally count as part of the property.

"High winds are not in themselves a controllable risk. But fallen trees certainly are, given the control the railway has over its own curtilage." — Industry Insider pseudonym, A Damaging Trend (2022)

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Gen Z slang rizz Charm — the ability to attract a romantic interest.

B2 · Intermediate empathy The capacity to share another person’s feelings.

C1 · Advanced nonchalant Casually calm and relaxed; unconcerned.

Internet slang delulu Delusional — believing something against the odds.

Etymology nostalgia Greek nostos “return home” + algos “pain”.

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English courtelage, curtilage, curtylage ("vegetable garden; croft; gardening, farming"), from Anglo-Norman curtilage, from Old French cortillage, courtillage (surviving as the obsolete modern French courtillage; compare Medieval Latin cortilagium, curtilagium). That came from cortil, cortill ("small court, garth") plus -age, a suffix denoting a relationship with a place. Cortil, cortill in turn derive from cort, curt ("court of a monarch") plus -il, a suffix forming place names; and cort, curt comes from Latin cōrtem, the accusative singular of cōrs, a variant of cohors ("court; enclosure; farmyard; etc."), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ("beside, by; near; with") plus *ǵʰer- ("to enclose").

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grounds yard

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Rhymes for curtilage

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What is the meaning of curtilage?

"curtilage" (noun) means (law) The land and buildings right around a house that legally count as part of the property.

What is another word for curtilage?

Other words for "curtilage" include grounds, yard.

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