garden
Syllables: gar·den/ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n//ˈɡɑɹ.d(ə)n/
garden noun: an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
Noun
garden (plural gardens)
- 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
- […] I ſuppoſe the North ſide of the water to be the beſt ſide for your garden, that it may haue the comfort of the South Sunne to lye vpon it and face it, and the dwelling houſe to bee aboue it, to defend the cold windes and froſts both from your herbes, and flowers, and early fruits.1629, John Parkinson, “The Situation of a Garden of Pleasure, with the Nature of Soyles, and How to Amend the Defects that are in Many Sorts of Situations and Grounds”, in Paradisi in Sole Paradisus...
- Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
- You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.
- Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
- garden party; garden path; garden spade
- The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered. Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses. There were lovely ices […] with every kind of cream cake, of sandwich, of éclair, and peaches, muscat...1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN
- An ornamental garden featuring plants and other features to attract, house, conserve, benefit and/or display certain animals.
- butterfly garden; wild bird garden
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- yard
- A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
- 32 Windsor Gardens.
- The twentieth Lenormand card.
- A cluster; a bunch.
- Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11
- Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
- Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits.1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006
- N.B. From a commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c. 950 BC; book footnotes are shown here within brackets. Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than the intended meaning of Biblical...
- Synonyms:
- pubic hair
Verb
garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)
- To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
- I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
- Synonyms:
- make garden
- Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
- Synonyms:
- farm
- To smoke marijuana.
Adjective
garden (not comparable)
- Common, ordinary, domesticated.
- In that case, the thing was mere plain or garden robbery.1925, Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys
- Synonyms:
- garden variety
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Garden
Garden (plural Gardens)
- A surname.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Garden
the Garden
- Covent Garden in London, England, or its theatre or market.
garden meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
garden in Hindi
- piece of land outside with flowers and plants
- उद्यान udyān, उपवन upvan, वाटिका vāṭikā, बाड़ी bāṛī, बगिया bagiyā
- gardens with public access
- वाटिका vāṭikā, उद्यान udyān, उपवन upvan
- grounds at the front or back of a house
- बगिया bagiyā
- a vegetable garden — see also orchard, vineyard
- वाटिका vāṭikā, बगिया bagiyā
garden in Tamil
- piece of land outside with flowers and plants
- தோட்டம் tōṭṭam
- gardens with public access
- பூங்கா pūṅkā, கடி kaṭi
garden in Marathi
- piece of land outside with flowers and plants
- बगीचा bagīcā, बाग bāg
garden in Urdu
- piece of land outside with flowers and plants
- باغِیچَہ bāġīca, باغ bāġ
More languagesFewer languages
- garden in Bengali
- উদ্দ্যান udddan, বাগ bag
- garden in Telugu
- తోట tōṭa, ఉద్యానవనము udyānavanamu, ఉద్యానవనం udyānavanaṁ, పెరడు peraḍu
- garden in Malayalam
- തോട്ടം tōṭṭaṁ, ഉദ്യാനം udyānaṁ
- garden in Kannada
- ತೋಟ tōṭa
- garden in Punjabi
- ਬਗੀਚਾ bagīcā, ਬਾਗ bāg, ਵਾੜੀ vāṛī
- garden in Gujarati
- બગીચો bagīco, બાગ bāg
- garden in Odia
- ବଗିଚା bagicā
- garden in Sanskrit
- उद्यान udyāna
- garden in Sinhala
- වත්ත watta
- garden in Assamese
- বাৰী bari, বাগান bagan
- garden in Nepali
- बगैंचा bagaiñcā, वन van
- garden in Pashto
- بڼ baṇ
- garden in Tagalog
- hardin, lagwerta
- garden in Arabic
- بُسْتَان bustān, حَدِيقَة ḥadīqa, جَنَّة janna, جنينة ginēna
- garden in Malay
- taman, kebun
- garden in Indonesian
- taman, kebun
- garden in Persian
- باغ bâġ, باغْچِه bâġče, پالیز pâliz, بوسْتان bustân
- garden in Thai
- สวน sǔuan
- garden in Vietnamese
- vườn, vườn rau
- garden in Myanmar
- ဥယျာဉ် u.yyany, ပန်းခြံ pan:hkram
- Sindhi
- باغُ bāġu, बाग़ु
Examples of garden in a sentence
- Our garden is overgrown with weeds.
- Maybe, I don't really wanna know / How your garden grows / 'Cause I just wanna fly1994, Noel Gallagher, “Live Forever”, in Definitely Maybe, performed by Oasis:
- The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
Synonyms of garden
- park
- public garden
- yard
- pubic hair
- make garden
- farm
- garden variety
Forms of garden
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gardens |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gardens |
| present participle | gardening |
| past participle | gardened |
| past | gardened |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Gardens |
Origin of garden
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. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu. Via PIE cognate with Bulgarian градина (gradina), Czech zahrada, Polish ogród, Russian огоро́д (ogoród). Compare typologically Latin hortus (a possible cognate via PIE); Ancient Greek περίβολος (períbolos), Proto-Iranian *paridayjah (whence Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos)).
Words formed from garden
- Acacia Gardens
- Allah's Garden
- Allenby Gardens
- Aspendale Gardens
- atomic garden
- Beach Haven Gardens
- bear garden
- Belgian Gardens
- Birmingham Gardens
- black and gold garden spider
- black garden ant
- botanic garden
- Bundaleer Gardens
- Cambridge Gardens
- carden
- Cherry Gardens
- Clarence Gardens
- Colonel Light Gardens
- common-and-garden
- common or garden
- common-or-garden
- common or garden variety
- Cranley Gardens
- Cypress Gardens
- devil's garden
- digital garden
- dish garden
- Dover Gardens
- dragged through the garden
- Eastgardens
- European garden spider
- Evanston Gardens
- everything in the garden is lovely
- everything in the garden is rosy
- everything is rosy in the garden
- fairy garden
- food garden
- Fulham Gardens
- fungus garden
- gamma garden
- gardenable
- gardenalia
- garden angelica
- garden apartment
- garden balsam
- garden boy
- gardenburger
- garden-burger
- garden burger
- garden center
- garden centipede
- garden centre
- garden chervil
- garden city
- garden close
- Garden County
- gardencraft
- garden cress
- garden croton
- garden dormouse
Phrases with garden
- Fig Garden
- garden eel
- garden egg
- garden net
- garden pea
- hop garden
- New Garden
- sky garden
- tea garden
- war garden
- Zen garden
- back garden
159 more phrasesFewer phrases
- beer garden
- Eden garden
- garden boys
- garden eels
- garden eggs
- garden fork
- garden gate
- garden hose
- garden mint
- garden nail
- garden nets
- garden path
- garden peas
- garden pest
- garden shed
- garden soil
- Home Garden
- knot garden
- lady garden
- made garden
- make garden
- Mary garden
- moon garden
- rain garden
- rock garden
- roof garden
- rose garden
- salt garden
- Dutch garden
- front garden
- Garden Acres
- Garden Farms
- garden folly
- garden forks
- garden gates
- garden glass
- garden globe
- garden gnome
- Garden Grove
- garden gummy
- garden hoses
- garden house
- garden leave
- garden level
- garden mints
- garden nails
- garden party
- garden paths
- garden pests
- garden pizza
- Garden Reach
- Garden River
- Garden Route
- garden salad
- garden sheds
- garden snail
- garden snake
- garden soils
- Garden State
- glass garden
- makes garden
- truck garden
- water garden
- Covent Garden
- flower garden
- garden cities
- garden endive
- garden engine
- garden escape
- garden gnomes
- garden hermit
- garden houses
- garden levels
- garden office
- garden pizzas
- garden salads
- garden shears
- garden snails
- garden snakes
- garden sorrel
- Garden Stater
- Garden Suburb
- Garden Valley
- making garden
- market garden
- physic garden
- rocket garden
- Spring Garden
- veggie garden
- walled garden
- winter garden
- cutting garden
- English garden
- garden burgers
- garden centers
- garden centres
- garden cresses
- garden dormice
- garden endives
- garden engines
- garden escapes
- garden glasses
- Garden of Eden
- garden offices
- garden parties
- Garden Staters
- garden syringe
- garden variety
- garden warbler
- hanging garden
- kitchen garden
- Old Fig Garden
- sensory garden
- traffic garden
- victory garden
- floating garden
- garden patience
- garden syringes
- garden warblers
- Lee Garden Hill
- pleasure garden
- vertical garden
- botanical garden
- community garden
- Garden of Weeden
- garden varieties
- meanwhile garden
- vegetable garden
- black garden ants
- Covent Garden nun
- garden apartments
- garden centipedes
- garden fleahopper
- garden heliotrope
- garden nasturtium
- garden nightshade
- Garden of England
- Garden of Weed-en
- zoological garden
- Covent Garden ague
- Covent Garden nuns
- garden fleahoppers
- garden nasturtiums
- Peace Garden State
- Welwyn Garden City
- Covent Garden agues
- Garden Island Creek
- Rose Garden rubbish
- Covent Garden abbess
- demonstration garden
- garden path sentence
- yellow garden spider
- garden path sentences
- gazelle in the garden
- yellow garden spiders
- Covent Garden abbesses
- Letchworth Garden City
- run through the garden
- European garden spiders
Words that rhyme with garden
Questions about garden
- What does garden mean?
- Garden means an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- What is garden in Hindi?
- Garden in Hindi is उद्यान (udyān), उपवन (upvan), वाटिका (vāṭikā). See Garden meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use garden in a sentence?
- Our garden is overgrown with weeds.
- What part of speech is garden?
- Garden can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce garden?
- Garden is pronounced /ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/ (UK).
- What is the plural of garden?
- The plural of garden is gardens.
Words near garden in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: garden (page history and authors); Garden (page history and authors); ବଗିଚା (Odia) (page history and authors); बगैंचा (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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