GARDEN

garden

(adjective) the usual or familiar type; “it is a common or garden sparrow”

garden

(noun) a plot of ground where plants are cultivated

garden

(noun) a yard or lawn adjoining a house

garden

(noun) the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

garden

(verb) work in the garden; “My hobby is gardening”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

Garden (plural Gardens)

A surname.

Anagrams

• Gander, danger, gander, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

Etymology

Noun

garden (plural gardens)

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

(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

(attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

(UK, Ireland) The grounds at the front or back of a house.

(cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.

(figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.

(slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

Synonyms

• (decorative place outside)

• (gardens with public access): park, public gardens

• (grounds at the front or back of a house): yard (US)

• (the pubic hair): See pubic hair

Hyponyms

• allotment garden

• alpine garden

• apothecary garden

• back garden

• baroque garden

• beer garden

• botanical garden

• cactus garden

• caretaker's garden

• castle garden

• Chinese garden

• coral garden

• cottage garden

• country garden

• court garden

• courtyard garden

• cutting garden

• display garden

• dream garden

• English garden

• English landscape garden

• flower garden

• French garden

• French formal garden

• French landscape garden

• front garden

• fruit garden

• garden of God (paradise)

• Greek garden

• herb garden

• hop garden

• household garden

• Islamic garden

• Italian garden

• Japanese garden

• keyhole garden

• kitchen garden

• knot garden (labyrinth)

• landscape garden

• landscaped garden

• market garden

• medicinal herb garden

• medicinal plant garden

• municipal garden

• olive garden

• orangery garden

• orchid garden

• organic garden

• ornamental garden

• palace garden

• paradise garden

• palm garden

• perennial garden

• Persian garden

• physic garden (British)

• pleasure garden

• pub garden (British)

• public gardens

• rear garden

• rock garden

• Roman garden

• rose garden

• roof garden

• rooftop garden

• school garden

• sculpture garden

• sensory garden

• show garden

• Spanish garden

• stroll garden

• strolling garden

• summer garden

• sunken garden

• tea garden

• terraced garden

• tropical garden

• vegetable garden

• water garden

• winter garden

• Zen garden

• zoological garden(s)

• xerogarden

Verb

garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)

(intransitive, chiefly, North America) to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

Synonym: make garden (dated)

(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.

Synonym: farm

Adjective

garden (not comparable)

Common, ordinary, domesticated.

Anagrams

• Gander, danger, gander, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

Source: Wiktionary

Gar"den, n. Etym: [OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure.]

1. A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. Shak.

Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse. Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina).

– Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.

– Garden glass. (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.

– Garden house (a) A summer house. Beau & Fl. (b) A privy. [Southern U.S.] -- Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.

– Garden mold or mould, rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden. Mortimer.

– Garden nail, a cast nail used, for fastening vines to brick walls. Knight.

– Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.

– Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.

– Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden. Garden pot, a watering pot.

– Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump.

– Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.

– Garden spider, (Zoöl.), the diadem spider (Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and Spider web.

– Garden stand, a stand for flower pots.

– Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.] -- Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.

– Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.] -- Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.] Mortimer.

– Bear garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc.

– Hanging garden. See under Hanging.

– Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.

– Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.

Gar"den, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gardened; p. pr. & vb. n. Gardening.]

Definition: To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.

Gar"den, v. t.

Definition: To cultivate as a garden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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