garden
IPA: gˈɑrdʌn
noun
- 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.
- (Britain, Ireland, Appalachia) 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.
- A surname.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) Covent Garden in London, England, or its theatre or market.
verb
- (intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
- (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.
adjective
- Common, ordinary, domesticated.
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Examples of "garden" in Sentences
- A tree in the garden is ramose.
- The tree in my garden sprouts in spring.
- The house lies in the south of the garden.
- Can someone move the ramose tree in the garden
- The Gardens are the uppermost part of the House.
- He called the gardener because of the ramose tree.
- The garden offers leisurely rides of a slow nature.
- The area immediately around the house is the garden.
- There was a variety of arborescent trees in the garden.
- At the back of the house, there is a sunken garden called the Dutch Garden.
- But ... how put such transcendental facts into common or garden (for it is _garden_) language?
- He claims that ˜five foot garden hose™ is an individuative term since no part of it is a five foot garden hose, but ˜garden hose™ is not individuative.
- "_And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and A dam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden_."
- The Morning Prayer Hall courtyard features a salsabil, or paradise water fountain, as its centerpiece, while the main garden is inlaid with a network of small water canals connected to a central fountain.
- He paced about his apartments, feeling a sort of physical delight, opening his window and looking out on the commonplace garden through which so many ministers had passed and which he called, as so many before him had done: _My garden_.
- _Lodovico discovereth to Madam Beatrice the love he beareth her, whereupon she sendeth Egano her husband into the garden, in her own favour, and lieth meanwhile with Lodovico, who, presently arising, goeth and cudgelleth Egano in the garden_ 344
- An elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: If the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden
- Age and hygienic necessities bind me to a somewhat anchoritic life in pure air, with abundant leisure to meditate upon the wisdom of Candide's sage aphorism, "Cultivons notre jardin" -- especially if the term garden may be taken broadly and applied to the stony and weed-grown ground within my skull, as well as to a few perches of more promising chalk down outside it.