Definitions for garden
ˈgɑr dngar·den

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gardennoun

   a plot of ground where plants are cultivated

2. gardennoun

   the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

3. gardenverb

   a yard or lawn adjoining a house

4. gardenverb

   work in the garden

   "My hobby is gardening"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gardennoun

   An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food (vegetable garden) or ornamental purposes (flower garden).

2. gardennoun

   Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

   You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.

3. gardennoun

   The grounds at the front or back of a house.

4. gardennoun

   A cluster, a bunch.

5. gardennoun

   Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

6. gardenverb

   to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

   I love to garden uE00059307uE001 this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.

7. gardenverb

   of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

8. gardenadjective

   Of, relating to, in, from or for use in a garden.

9. gardenadjective

   Common, ordinary, domesticated.

10. Etymology: gardin, diminutive (cf. hortus gardinus) or oblique form of *gard (compare jart), from Old Low Franconian * 'fenced in yard, garden' (compare Dutch gaarde, gaard), from gardô (compare West Frisian gard, Low German Garden, German Garten), from gardaz. More at yard.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. GARDENnoun

   Etymology: gardd, Welsh; jardin, French; giardino, Italian.

   1. A piece of ground inclosed, and cultivated with extraordinary care, planted with herbs or fruits for food, or laid out for pleasure.

   Thy promises are like Adonis’ gardens,
   Which one day bloom’d and fruitful were the next. William Shakespeare.

   My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holbourn,
   I saw good strawberries in your garden there. William Shakespeare, R. III.

   In the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year. Francis Bacon, Essays.

   In every garden should be provided flowers, fruit, shade and water. William Temple.

   2. A place particularly fruitful or delightful.

   I am arriv’d from fruitful Lombardy,
   The pleasant garden of great Italy. William Shakespeare, Tam. of the Shrew.

   3. Garden is often used in composition for hortensis, or belonging to a garden.

2. To Gardenverb

   To cultivate a garden; to lay out gardens

   Etymology: from the noun.

   At first, in Rome’s poor age,
   When both her kings and consuls held the plough,
   Or garden’d well. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

   When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. Francis Bacon, Essay 47.

Wikipedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Garden

   A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature, as an ideal setting for social or solitary human life. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is control. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials.Gardens often have design features including statuary, follies, pergolas, trellises, stumperies, dry creek beds and water features such as fountains, ponds (with or without fish), waterfalls or creeks. Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while others also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes intermixed with the ornamental plants. Food-producing gardens are distinguished from farms by their smaller scale, more labor-intensive methods, and their purpose (enjoyment of a hobby or self-sustenance rather than producing for sale, as in a market garden). Flower gardens combine plants of different heights, colors, textures, and fragrances to create interest and delight the senses. Landscape architecture is a related professional activity with landscape architects tending to engage in design at many scales and working on both public and private projects. The most common form today is a residential or public garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden, which etymologically implies enclosure, often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden. Some traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, however, use plants sparsely or not at all. Landscape gardens, on the other hand, such as the English landscape gardens first developed in the 18th century, may omit flowers altogether.

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Gardennoun

   a piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables

2. Gardennoun

   a rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country

3. Gardenverb

   to lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture

4. Gardenverb

   to cultivate as a garden

5. Etymology: [OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Garden

   A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden. Some traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, use plants such as parsley. Xeriscape gardens use local native plants that do not require irrigation or extensive use of other resources while still providing the benefits of a garden environment. Gardens may exhibit structural enhancements, sometimes called follies, including water features such as fountains, ponds, waterfalls or creeks, dry creek beds, statuary, arbors, trellises and more. Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while some gardens also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes intermixed with the ornamental plants. Food-producing gardens are distinguished from farms by their smaller scale, more labor-intensive methods, and their purpose. Flower gardens combine plants of different heights, colors, textures, and fragrances to create interest and delight the senses.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Garden

   gär′dn, n. a piece of ground on which flowers, &c., are cultivated: a pleasant spot.—ns. Gar′dener; Gar′den-glass, a bell-glass for covering plants; Gar′dening, the act of laying out and cultivating gardens; Gar′den-par′ty, a party held on the lawn or in the garden of a private house.—Garden of Eden (see Eden); Hanging garden, a garden formed in terraces rising one above another—e.g. those of Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon; Market gardener, a gardener who raises vegetables, fruits, &c. for sale; Philosophers of the garden, followers of Epicurus who taught in a garden. [O. Fr. gardin (Fr. jardin); from Teut.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. GARDEN

   From the Fr. _garantir_, to make good. Hence, a place where lovers make good.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. garden

   An outdoor space.

   The garden was so beautiful, clean, neat, tidy and brought so much joy.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 15, 2020  

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Matched Categories

1. • Horticulture
   • Plot
   • Tend
   • Vegetation

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'garden' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #956

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'garden' in Written Corpus Frequency: #903

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'garden' in Nouns Frequency: #286

Anagrams for garden »

1. danger

2. gander

3. grande

4. ranged

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of garden in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of garden in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of garden in a Sentence

1. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde:

   Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

3. Sarah Lamarr:

   If you have a bus stop near you I would really encourage anyone to do the same because it's just a really lovely thing to have in your community, if you are stuck in a first floor, second floor flat with no garden with kids, it's just a great thing to watch out the window.

4. Joshua Henne:

   You could make the case that Crowley was more in touch with the inside-the-Beltway D.C. game and House leadership, rather than tending to his garden at home.

5. Madison Square Garden:

   All guests -- no matter what team they support -- should feel safe and respected in The Garden. This has and always will be our policy.

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