Word: garden Part of Speech: noun 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 and of garth. 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. Via PIE cognate with Bulgarian градина (gradina), Czech zahrada, Polish ogród, Russian огоро́д (ogoród). Compare typologically Latin hortus (a possible cognate via PIE); Ancient Greek περίβολος (períbolos), Proto-Iranian *paridayjah (whence Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos)). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/, /ˈɡɑɹ.d(ə)n/, /ˈɡäː.d(ə)n/ 1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. Example: flower garden; herb garden; rose garden; vegetable garden Example: […] 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. 2. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. Labels: in-plural Example: You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens. 3. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. Labels: attributive Example: garden party; garden path; garden spade Example: 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. 4. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. Labels: broadly Example: butterfly garden; wild bird garden 5. The grounds at the front or back of a house. Labels: Appalachia, Ireland, New-York-City, UK Example: This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden. Example: We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden. 6. A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden. Labels: in-plural Example: 32 Windsor Gardens. 7. The twentieth Lenormand card. 8. A cluster; a bunch. Labels: figuratively Example: Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family. 9. Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks. Labels: slang Example: 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. Example: 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.