garden

Meaning

Noun

1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
2. (in-plural) An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
3. (attributive) An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
4. (Appalachia, British, Ireland, New-York-City) The grounds at the front or back of a house.
5. (in-plural) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
6. The twentieth Lenormand card.
7. (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
8. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
2. (intransitive) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
3. (slang) To smoke marijuana.

Adj

Common, ordinary, domesticated.

Synonyms

park

🏞️

orchard

field

yard

grove

plant

🌱

cultivated field

vegetable garden

farm

plantation

bed

🛏️

public park

forest

plot

flower garden

enclosure

lawn

meadow

front garden

seed

garth

cultivate

vegetable plot

pasture

kitchen garden

husbandry

market-garden

nursery

paddy field

paradise

planted forest

pleasure-ground

plot of land

plow

plum

quad

shrubbery

sow

thicket

tope

trees

vegetable

vineyard

visit

woods

small field

pleasure-garden

pleasure-grove

cultivate land

cultivated area

Translations

jardin

Garten

jardín

giardino

tuin

jardim

κήπος

jardí

bahçe

huerto

orto

hortus

bax

baxçe

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡɑːdən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gardyn

Cognate with English: yard

Cognate with Old French: jart

Cognate with Western Frisian: gard

Cognate with Low German: Goorn

Cognate with Dutch: gaard

Cognate with German: Garten

Cognate with French: jardin

Cognate with Spanish: jardín

Cognate with Italian: giardino

Cognate with Sicilian: jardinu

In summary

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. 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.

Sentences

It is a romantic landscape garden designed in the English style .

Its name in Japanese is "SuihoEn" meaning " garden of water and fragrance .