Garden Plants Noun ˈɡɑːdn ˈɡɑːrdn Front/Back/Rear Vegetable Rose

• a front/back/rear garden
• a vegetable garden
• a rose garden (= where only roses are grown)
• the main bedroom overlooks the garden.

garden

1. a piece of land next to or around your house where you can grow flowers, fruit, vegetables, etc., usually with a lawn (= an area of grass)
• SEE ALSO community garden
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/community-garden
• a front/back/rear garden
• a vegetable garden
• a rose garden (= where only roses are grown)
• The main bedroom overlooks the garden.
• children playing in the garden
• a garden shed
• garden flowers/plants

Extra Examples

• She has created a garden out of a wilderness.
• The garden is laid out in 18th-century style.
• They hang out washing in their back gardens.
• We got someone to design the garden for us.
• We planted the garden with herbs and wild flowers.
• Weekends were spent doing the garden.
• a large country house with beautiful landscaped gardens
• a lovely Victorian walled garden
• aphids, one of the commonest garden pests
• plants suitable for a small town garden
• Ease of cultivation makes it one of the best garden plants.
• They planted a garden of woodland plants that were native to the area.
• They sat in the garden and enjoyed the sunshine.
2. an area in a yard where you grow flowers or plants
• SEE ALSO beer garden
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/beer-garden
• These flowers brighten up backyard gardens all over the country.

Extra Examples

• Old Mr Kenyon still keeps a garden.
• Maggie unwound the hose and watered the garden.
3. a public park
• SEE ALSO botanical garden
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/botanical-garden
• Thousands of people now visit the gardens every year.
• The concert will take place in the gardens.
4. used in the name of streets
• 39 Belvoir Gardens
5. ordinary; with no special features
6. everything is fine
7. to make somebody believe something that is not true

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old Northern French gardin, variant of Old French jardin, of Germanic origin; related to yard ‘area outside a building’.