Meaning
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- An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- The grounds at the front or back of a house.
- The twentieth Lenormand card.
- A cluster; a bunch.
- (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
Synonyms
cultivated field
public park
vegetable plot
planted forest
pleasure-ground
plot of land
small field
pleasure-garden
pleasure-grove
cultivate land
cultivated area
engaged in farming
grow tree crops
vegetable patch
orchad
organery
woodlet
green space
back-yard
enclosed garden
garden court
outdoor garden
plot for agriculture
Frequency
Hyphenated as
gar‧den
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡɑːdən/
Etymology
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. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.
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