Meaning

9 senses

  1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

    flower garden; herb garden; rose garden; vegetable garden

  2. 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.

    You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.

    Garten, Goatn, Gartn

    садsad, паркpark

  3. (attributive)Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

    garden party; garden path; garden spade

  4. (broadly)An ornamental garden featuring plants and other features to attract, house, conserve, benefit and/or display certain animals.

    butterfly garden; wild bird garden

  5. (Appalachia, Ireland, New York City, UK)The grounds at the front or back of a house.

    This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.

    We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.

    Garten, Vorgarten, Goatn

    садsad, бахча́baxčá

    садsad, го́родhórod

  6. (in the plural)A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.

    32 Windsor Gardens.

    огоро́дogoród, бахча́baxčá

    горо́дhoród

  7. The twentieth Lenormand card.

  8. (figuratively)A cluster; a bunch.

  9. (slang)Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

    Gestrüpp

    волосня́volosnjá

More definitions
  • a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
  • a yard or lawn adjoining a house
  • the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

Examples

2260 sentences

  1. We picked flowers in the garden.

    Ми зібрали квіти у саду. — anastasishko

    ruМы рвали цветы в саду. — odexed

    deWir haben im Garten Blumen gepflückt. — Aru

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  2. There was nobody in the garden.

    У саду нікого не було. — brambury

    ruНикого не было в саду. — corvard

    deDa war niemand im Garten. — Wolf

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  3. She picked flowers in the garden.

    Вона збирала в саду квіти. — deniko

    ruОна нарвала в саду цветов. — sharptoothed

    deSie pflückte im Garten Blumen. — Ullalia

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  4. I helped Tom weed the garden.

    Я допоміг Тому прополоти в городі. — deniko

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  5. Tom is in the garden now.

    Том зараз на городі. — Ahha

    deTom ist gerade im Garten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
piece of land outside with flowers and plants:
grounds at the front or back of a house:
a vegetable garden — see also orchard, vineyard:
Русский
By meaning 5
piece of land outside with flowers and plants:
gardens with public access:
grounds at the front or back of a house:
a vegetable garden — see also orchard, vineyard:
slang: the pubic hair:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
piece of land outside with flowers and plants:
grounds at the front or back of a house:
slang: the pubic hair:

Origin

From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, obli

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.

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Forms

plural: gardens
Singulargarden
Pluralgardens

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
gardens with public access:parkA1public garden
grounds at the front or back of a house:yardA1
the pubic hair:pubic hair

Word family

109 related words
Derivedatomic gardenbear gardenbotanic gardencardencommon-and-gardencommon-or-gardendevil's gardendigital gardendish gardenfairy gardenfood gardenfungus gardengamma gardengardenablegardenaliagarden angelicagarden apartmentgarden balsamgarden boygardenburgergarden centipedegarden centregarden chervilgarden city

Collocations

12 patterns
  • in the garden
  • weed the garden
  • weeding the garden
  • in his garden
  • in our garden
  • in my garden
  • watered the garden
  • garden pulling weeds
  • in your garden
  • a small garden
  • botanical garden
  • vegetable garden

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
garbageA1garbanzogarbogardenerB2gargantuangargle

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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