bear garden
bear garden noun: a public place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting.
Noun
bear garden (plural bear gardens)
- A public place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting.
- Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted.
- […] Indeed, the education of your youth is every way preposterous; you waste at school years in improving talents, without having ever spent an hour in discovering them; one promiscuous line of instruction is followed, without regard to genius, capacity, or probable situation in the commonwealth....1771, Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling, London: Cassell, published 1886, pages 60–1
- He sees the rich, the aristocratic class, in occupation of the executive government, and so if he is of us, stopped from making Hyde Park a bear-garden or the streets.1867-1868, Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
Forms of bear garden
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Questions about bear garden
- What does bear garden mean?
- Bear garden means a public place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting.
- What part of speech is bear garden?
- Bear garden is a noun.
- What is the plural of bear garden?
- The plural of bear garden is bear gardens.
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