garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gärʹdən
ipa: /ˈɡɑːdn̩/
enpr: gärʹdən
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹdn̩/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dən
Forms: form: gardens
Etymology: 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.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.
Senses: examples: text: a vegetable garden
text: a flower garden
text: […] 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.
ref: 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:
text: Maybe, I don't really wanna know / How your garden grows / 'Cause I just wanna fly
ref: 1994, Noel Gallagher, “Live Forever”, in Definitely Maybe, performed by Oasis:
glosses: An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
examples: text: You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: a garden party
text: a garden path
text: a garden spade
text: 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.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.
text: We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.
text: Our garden is overgrown with weeds.
glosses: The grounds at the front or back of a house.
examples: text: 32 Windsor Gardens.
glosses: A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
raw_tags: used in street names
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The twentieth Lenormand card.
examples: text: Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.
ref: 1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11:
glosses: A cluster; a bunch.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006
text: 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.
text: 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.
glosses: Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
Synonyms: sense: gardens with public access
word: park
sense: gardens with public access
word: public gardens
sense: grounds at the front or back of a house
word: yard
sense: the pubic hair
word: pubic hair
Hyponyms: word: allotment garden
word: alpine garden
word: apothecary garden
word: back garden
word: baroque garden
word: beer garden
word: botanical garden
word: cactus garden
word: caretaker's garden
word: castle garden
word: Chinese garden
word: community garden
word: coral garden
word: cottage garden
word: country garden
word: court garden
word: courtyard garden
word: cutting garden
word: display garden
word: dream garden
word: Eden garden
word: English garden
word: English landscape garden
word: flower garden
word: French formal garden
word: French garden
word: French landscape garden
word: front garden
word: fruit garden
english: paradise
translation: paradise
word: garden of God
word: Greek garden
word: herb garden
word: hop garden
word: household garden
word: Islamic garden
word: Italian garden
word: Japanese garden
word: keyhole garden
word: kitchen garden
english: labyrinth
translation: labyrinth
word: knot garden
word: landscaped garden
word: landscape garden
word: market garden
word: medicinal herb garden
word: medicinal plant garden
word: moon garden
word: municipal garden
word: olive garden
word: orangery garden
word: orchid garden
word: organic garden
word: ornamental garden
word: palace garden
word: palm garden
word: paradise garden
word: perennial garden
word: Persian garden
word: physic garden
word: pleasure garden
word: pub garden
word: public gardens
word: rear garden
word: rock garden
word: Roman garden
word: roof garden
word: rooftop garden
word: rose garden
word: school garden
word: sculpture garden
word: sensory garden
word: show garden
word: Spanish garden
word: stroll garden
word: strolling garden
word: summer garden
word: sunken garden
word: tea garden
word: terraced garden
word: tropical garden
word: vegetable garden
word: water garden
word: winter garden
word: xerogarden
word: Zen garden
word: zoological garden(s)
Derived terms: 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
Cranley Gardens
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
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 endive
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 of Eden
Garden of England
garden office
garden party
garden path
garden-path
garden-path sentence
garden path sentence
garden patience
garden pea
garden pest
garden pizza
Garden River
gardenry
garden salad
garden shears
garden shed
garden snail
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
yellow garden spider