garden
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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. Displaced Old English wyrttūn.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gärʹdən, IPA(key): /ˈɡɑːdən/, /-n̩/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) enPR: gärʹdən, IPA(key): /ˈɡɑɹdən/, /-n̩/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dən
- Hyphenation: gar‧den
Noun
[edit]garden (plural gardens)
- An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- a vegetable garden
- a flower garden
- 1629, John Parkinson, “The Situation of a Garden of Pleasure, with the Nature of Soyles, and How to Amend the Defects that are in Many Sorts of Situations and Grounds”, in Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. […], London: […] Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng […], →OCLC, page 1:
- […] 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.
- (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
- You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.
- (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
- a garden party
- a garden path
- a garden spade
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered. Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses. There were lovely ices […] with every kind of cream cake, of sandwich, of éclair, and peaches, muscat grapes, and nectarines.
- (British, Ireland, Appalachia, New York City) 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.
- Our garden is overgrown with weeds.
- (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
- (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
- 1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11:
- Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.
- (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
- 1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006
- Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits.
- N.B. From a commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c. 950 BC; book footnotes are shown here within brackets. Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than the intended meaning of Biblical Hebrew גַּן (gan) in 950 BC.
- c. 2004, Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at haircaredownthere.com on 9 May 2006 -
- Primping and pruning the secret garden might seem like a totally 21st century concept, but the fact is women have gotten into below-the-belt grooming since before the Bronze Age.
- 1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006
Synonyms
[edit]- (decorative place outside):
- (gardens with public access): park, public gardens
- (grounds at the front or back of a house): yard (US, Canada, Australia)
- (the pubic hair): See pubic hair
Hyponyms
[edit]- allotment garden
- alpine garden
- apothecary garden
- back garden
- baroque garden
- beer garden
- botanical garden
- cactus garden
- caretaker's garden
- castle garden
- Chinese garden
- community garden
- coral garden
- cottage garden
- country garden
- court garden
- courtyard garden
- cutting garden
- display garden
- dream garden
- Eden garden
- English garden
- English landscape garden
- flower garden
- French formal garden
- French 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)
- landscaped garden
- landscape garden
- market garden
- medicinal herb garden
- medicinal plant garden
- moon garden
- municipal garden
- olive garden
- orangery garden
- orchid garden
- organic garden
- ornamental garden
- palace garden
- palm garden
- paradise garden
- perennial garden
- Persian garden
- physic garden (British)
- pleasure garden
- pub garden (British)
- public gardens
- rear garden
- rock garden
- Roman garden
- roof garden
- rooftop garden
- rose 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
- xerogarden
- Zen garden
- zoological garden(s)
Derived terms
[edit]- Allah's Garden
- bear garden
- black and gold garden spider
- black garden ant
- botanic garden
- carden
- common-and-garden
- common-or-garden
- common or garden
- common or garden variety
- devil's garden
- dragged through the garden
- European garden spider
- everything in the garden is lovely
- everything in the garden is rosy
- everything is rosy in the garden
- fairy garden
- food garden
- fungus garden
- fungus garden
- gamma garden
- gardenable
- gardenalia
- garden angelica
- garden apartment
- garden balsam
- garden boy
- gardenburger
- garden-burger
- garden burger
- garden center
- garden centipede
- garden centre
- garden chervil
- garden city, Garden City
- Garden County
- gardencraft
- garden cress
- garden croton
- garden dormouse
- garden eel
- garden egg
- garden engine
- garden escape
- gardenesque
- garden fleahopper
- garden fork
- gardenful
- garden gate
- garden glass
- garden gnome
- gardenhood
- garden hose
- garden house
- gardenish
- gardenize
- garden leave
- gardenless
- garden level
- gardenlike
- gardenly
- gardenmaker
- gardenmaking
- garden mint
- garden nail
- garden nasturtium
- garden net
- garden nightshade
- garden office
- garden party
- garden-path
- garden path
- garden path sentence
- garden-path sentence
- garden patience
- garden pea
- garden pizza
- Garden River
- gardenry
- garden salad
- garden shears
- garden shed
- garden snake
- garden soil
- garden sorrel
- garden syringe
- Garden Valley
- garden-variety
- garden variety
- garden warbler
- gardenward
- gardenwards
- gardenware
- gardenwear
- gardenwise
- gardenwork
- gardeny
- gazelle in the garden
- glass garden
- hanging garden
- Kew Gardens
- kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
- kitchen-garden
- kitchen garden
- lady garden
- lead someone down the garden path, lead someone up the garden path
- make garden
- market-garden
- Miami Gardens
- moon garden
- Newgarden
- nongarden
- rain garden
- rocket garden
- rose-garden
- Ruislip Gardens
- run through the garden
- salt garden
- skunk at a garden party
- skunk at the garden party
- sky garden
- truck garden
- veggie garden
- vertical garden
- victory garden
- walled garden
- war garden
- yarden
Descendants
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Verb
[edit]garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)
- (intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
- Synonym: (dated) make garden
- I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
- (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
Derived terms
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Adjective
[edit]garden (not comparable)
- Common, ordinary, domesticated.
- Synonym: garden variety
Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: gar‧den
Noun
[edit]garden
- a garden
Verb
[edit]garden
- to make or turn into a garden
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:garden.
Danish
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[edit]garden c
Dutch
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Noun
[edit]garden
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]garden
- inflection of gardar:
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Northern French gardin.
Noun
[edit]garden
- Alternative form of gardyn
Etymology 2
[edit]From Anglo-Norman guardein.
Noun
[edit]garden
- Alternative form of gardein
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]garden m
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
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[edit]garden m
Etymology 2
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[edit]garden m
Sranan Tongo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch gordijn (“curtain”).
Noun
[edit]garden
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]garden
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰerdʰ-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)dən
- Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)dən/2 syllables
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- English terms with usage examples
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- British English
- Irish English
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- en:Cartomancy
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- Canadian English
- American English
- en:Cricket
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English adjectives ending in -en
- en:Horticulture
- en:Gardens
- Cebuano terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Cebuano terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰerdʰ-
- Cebuano terms derived from English
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- Cebuano verbs
- Cebuano terms derived from Middle English
- Cebuano terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- Cebuano terms derived from Frankish
- Cebuano terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- ceb:Horticulture
- Danish non-lemma forms
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- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Dutch non-lemma forms
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- Galician non-lemma forms
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- Middle English terms borrowed from Old Northern French
- Middle English terms derived from Old Northern French
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- Middle English terms borrowed from Anglo-Norman
- Middle English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
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- Norwegian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
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- Sranan Tongo terms borrowed from Dutch
- Sranan Tongo terms derived from Dutch
- Sranan Tongo lemmas
- Sranan Tongo nouns
- Swedish non-lemma forms
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