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pleasure-garden

pleasure-garden is the alternative form of pleasure garden.

Meaning of pleasure garden

Noun

pleasure garden (plural pleasure gardens)

  1. A park or garden that is open to the public for entertainment, typically including concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, and zoos.
    • Pleasure gardens offered a wide range of visual and musical sensations. […] If you wanted to slip the bounds of sexual decorum, you knew when and where to find willing accomplices inside the pleasure garden.2013, Jonathan Conlin, editor, The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 26
    Synonyms:
    pleasance
  2. Synonym of pleasure ground.
    Synonyms:
    pleasure ground

Forms of pleasure-garden

pluralpleasure-gardens

Questions about pleasure-garden

What is pleasure-garden the alternative form of?
Pleasure-garden is the alternative form of pleasure garden.

Words near pleasure-garden in the dictionary

  1. pleasure seekers
  2. pleasure trip
  3. pleasure trips
  4. pleasure-dome
  5. pleasure-domes
  6. pleasure-garden
  7. pleasure-gardens
  8. pleasure-ground
  9. pleasure-grounds
  10. pleasure-seeker
  11. pleasure-seekers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pleasure-garden (page history and authors); pleasure garden (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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