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garden house

garden house noun: a summerhouse, shed, or similar garden structure.

Noun

garden house (plural garden houses)

  1. A summerhouse, shed, or similar garden structure.
    • this is no garden-house1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene i
    • "So he did: it is in the dairy. Oh yes, and I know where some sulphur is. It is in the gardenhouse, where the tools are, in the orchard; it's what they use to smother the bees with—"1882, Richard Jefferies, Bevis: the Story of a Boy
  2. (Southern US, US, archaic) A privy.
  3. (India, historical) An Anglo-Indian suburban villa.
    • When Dalim became reanimated at night he ate whatever food he liked, for of such there was a plentiful stock in the garden-house, walked about on the premises, and meditated on the singularity of his lot.1912, Lal Behari Dey, Folk-tales of Bengal, Life's Secret

Forms of garden house

pluralgarden houses

Questions about garden house

What does garden house mean?
Garden house means a summerhouse, shed, or similar garden structure.
What part of speech is garden house?
Garden house is a noun.
What is the plural of garden house?
The plural of garden house is garden houses.

Words near garden house in the dictionary

  1. garden gummy
  2. garden heliotrope
  3. garden hermit
  4. garden hose
  5. garden hoses
  6. garden house
  7. garden houses
  8. Garden Island Creek
  9. garden leave
  10. garden level
  11. garden levels

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