garden.
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
Meaning & usage
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
flower garden; herb garden; rose garden; vegetable garden
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
garden party; garden path; garden spade
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. An ornamental garden featuring plants and other features to attract, house, conserve, benefit and/or display certain animals.
butterfly garden; wild bird garden
The grounds at the front or back of a house.
This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.
We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.
A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
32 Windsor Gardens.
The twentieth Lenormand card.
A cluster; a bunch.
Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin and of garth. Displaced Old English wyrttūn. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu. Via PIE cognate with Bulgarian градина (gradina), Czech zahrada, Polish ogród, Russian огоро́д (ogoród). Compare typologically Latin hortus (a possible cognate via PIE); Ancient Greek περίβολος (períbolos), Proto-Iranian *paridayjah (whence Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos)).
To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
To smoke marijuana.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin and of garth. Displaced Old English wyrttūn. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu. Via PIE cognate with Bulgarian градина (gradina), Czech zahrada, Polish ogród, Russian огоро́д (ogoród). Compare typologically Latin hortus (a possible cognate via PIE); Ancient Greek περίβολος (períbolos), Proto-Iranian *paridayjah (whence Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos)).
Common, ordinary, domesticated.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin and of garth. Displaced Old English wyrttūn. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu. Via PIE cognate with Bulgarian градина (gradina), Czech zahrada, Polish ogród, Russian огоро́д (ogoród). Compare typologically Latin hortus (a possible cognate via PIE); Ancient Greek περίβολος (períbolos), Proto-Iranian *paridayjah (whence Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos)).
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