Garden Definition

gärdn
gardened, gardening, gardens
noun
A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit.
American Heritage
A piece of ground, usually close to a house, for growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, ornamental shrubs or trees, etc.
Webster's New World
An arrangement of living material that is cultivated for food, as a fungus garden maintained by ants.
American Heritage
A place outdoors for public enjoyment, planted with trees, flowers, etc., and sometimes having special displays of plants, a zoo, a duck pond, etc.
Webster's New World
A well-cultivated region; area of fertile, developed land.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To cultivate (a plot of ground) as a garden.
American Heritage
To make, work in, or take care of a garden, lawn, etc.
Webster's New World
To make a garden of.
Webster's New World
To plant or tend a garden.
American Heritage
To work as a gardener.
American Heritage
adjective
Of, for, used in, or grown in a garden.
Webster's New World
Provided with open areas and greenery.
A garden community.
American Heritage
Ordinary; commonplace.
Webster's New World
Hardy.
Webster's New World
Garden-variety.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
idiom
lead
  • To mislead or deceive (another).
American Heritage
lead down the garden path
  • to mislead or deceive
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Garden

Noun

Singular:
garden
Plural:
gardens

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Garden

  • lead
  • lead down the garden path

Origin of Garden

  • From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French gardin (compare modern French jardin from Old French jardin), diminutive (cf. Vulgar Latin hortus gardinus) or oblique form of *gard (compare Old French jart), from Old Low Franconian *gardo 'fenced in yard, garden' (compare Dutch gaarde, gaard), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (compare West Frisian gard, Low German Garden, German Garten), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“yeard”). More at yard.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English gardin from Old North French from gart of Germanic origin gher-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Garden Sentence Examples

  • Today, I have a vegetable garden in my backyard.

  • They usually spent the morning hours in the garden and the afternoon at the pool.

  • Somewhere I can have a garden and maybe a horse.

  • The garden needed weeding anyway.

  • Alice was a geranium Cynthia had lovingly rescued from certain death by frost last September when the rest of their first year garden succumbed to the advancing seasons.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAR

Words Ending With

NENDEN

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With G and Ending With N

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Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With G6 Letter Words Ending With N