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Word garden
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˈɡɑːdn / NAmE / ˈɡɑːrdn /
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  • a front/back garden
  • children playing in the garden
  • garden flowers/plants
  • out in the garden
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garden

(noun)BrE / ˈɡɑːdn / NAmE / ˈɡɑːrdn /
  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 garden
    • children playing in the garden
    • garden flowers/plants
    • out in the garden
    • a rose garden (= where only roses are grown)
  2. an area in a yard where you grow flowers or plants
  3. a public park
    • see also zoological garden
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/zoological-garden
    • the botanical gardens in Edinburgh
  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 which is not true
  8. Extra Examples

    • Maggie unwound the hose and watered the garden.
    • Mary’s out in the garden.
    • Most of the hotel’s salads are grown in its own kitchen garden.
    • Old Mr Kenyon still keeps a garden.
    • She has created a garden out of a wilderness.
    • The garden is laid out in 18th-century style.
    • The house overlooks the garden.
    • These flowers brighten up backyard gardens all over the country.
    • They hang out washing in their back gardens.
    • We got someone to design the garden for us.
    • We got the gravel at our local garden centre.
    • 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
    • a rock garden with an astonishing variety of alpine plants
    • 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.
    • a flower/rose/vegetable garden

    Word Origin

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