Garden

/ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/ · noun

Meaning

An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes..

Definitions by Sense

1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
2. (British, Ireland, Appalachia, New York City) The grounds at the front or back of a house.
3. (in the plural, used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
4. (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
5. (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
6. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
7. (intransitive) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
8. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

Example Sentences

a vegetable garden

a flower garden

[…] I ſuppoſe the North ſide of the water to be the beſt ſide for your garden, that it may haue the comfort of the South Sunne to lye vpon it and face it, and the dwelling houſe to bee aboue it, to defend the cold windes and froſts both from your herbes, and flowers, and early fruits.

Maybe, I don't really wanna know / How your garden grows / 'Cause I just wanna fly

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.

Our garden is overgrown with weeds.

32 Windsor Gardens.

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Word Forms

• gardens
• gardening
• gardened

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