garden 
gar·den (gärd′'n)
noun
- a piece of ground, usually close to a house, for growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, ornamental shrubs or trees, etc.
- a well-cultivated region; area of fertile, developed land
- a place outdoors for public enjoyment, planted with trees, flowers, etc., and sometimes having special displays of plants, a zoo, a duck pond, etc.
Etymology: ME < NormFr gardin < Frank *gardo, akin to Ger garten, OE geard: see yard, garth
intransitive verb
to make, work in, or take care of a garden, lawn, etc.
transitive verb
to make a garden of
adjective
- of, for, used in, or grown in a garden
- ordinary; commonplace
- hardy
lead down the garden path
to mislead or deceive
garden
n.
Converse of object
- enclose: Exterior - enclosed garden, parking for 3 cars.
- overlook: The Dining Area has the benefit of patio doors overlooking the rear garden, dining table with 4 chairs.
- landscape: There are over 400 hundred animals in this zoo set within 32 acres of landscaped gardens.
- terrace: Garden there is a private terraced garden to the rear with washing line, barbecue and garden seating.
Preposition: with
- patio: A particular feature of this house is the pretty enclosed garden with patio, trees, shrubs and lawn.
Adjective modifier
- walled: There will be a balcony off the main bedroom and walled private gardens with hedged borders.
- rear: There is a good size enclosed rear garden with a small patio area.
- lawned: A path leads around to the front of the house where there is lawned garden on two levels.
- communal: Ground floor with private patio and garden with direct access to communal gardens and pool.
- botanical: We strayed from the main path to visit the city's botanical gardens.
- beautiful: Walking through the beautiful gardens there is a quiet, relaxing atmosphere.
Modifies a noun
- furniture: French windows lead to a small enclosed garden at the rear with garden furniture & barbecue.
- waste: Don't place garden waste in either your green or black bin.
- pond: Here are some tips for garden ponds which will be good for wildlife.
Noun used with modifier
- courtyard: Outside there is a quiet courtyard garden, while upstairs has a delightful double bedroom and recently refurbished bathroom.
- herb: In your herb garden - July 2006 The herb garden at Garden Organic Ryton in July July should be a delicious month.
- beer: At the back is a delightful beer garden with a section of decking raised above it.
- vegetable: There is also an organic fruit and vegetable garden.
- patio: Pool, patio garden, bar meals & snacks.
- cottage: A cottage garden flower border runs along the front of the house.
When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.
Givea manthesecure possessionof a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease on a garden, and he will convert it into a desert The magic ofturns sand to gold.
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; Maud And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.
Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by; But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye.
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:ö'Oh, how beautiful!'and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives.
Let 'Dig for Victory' be the motto of everyone with a garden and of every able-bodied man and woman capable of digging an allotment in their spare time.
The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall.
And the L God planted a garden eastwards in Eden; and there he put the manwhom he had formed. And out of the ground made the L God to grow every tree that is pleasant for the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
When Adam and Eve were dispossessed Of the garden hard by Heaven, They planted another one down in the west, 'Twas Devon, glorious Devon!
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow, A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow. There cherries grow, which none may buy Till 'Cherry ripe!'themselves do cry.
Here one is in Later Life, and it's perfectly pleasant really, not for a moment that garden of cactus and sour grapes I'd always assumed it must be.
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A chapel was built in the midst Where I used to play on the green.
Oh thou, that dear and happy isle The garden of the world ere while, Thou paradise of four seas, Which heaven planted us to please, But, to exclude the world, did guard With watery if not flaming sword; What luckless apple did we taste, To make us mortal, and thee waste?
Beauteous the fleet before the gale; Beauteous the multitudes in mail, Rank'd arms and crested heads: Beauteous the garden's umbrage mild, Walk, water, meditated wild, And all the bloomy beds.
In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away! 474
God Almighty first planteda garden; and indeed, it isthe purest of human pleasures.
The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
And when the woman saw that the tree wasgood for food, and that it waspleasanttothe eyes,and atreetobe desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them bothwere opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the L God walking inthegarden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the L God amongst the trees of the garden.
Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.
My VanGoghisbetter than Irises.Ihavethewholegarden.
Que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux, mais nonchalant d'elle, et encore plus de monjardinimparfait. I would like death to come to me while I am planting cabbages, caring little for death and even less for the imperfection of my garden.
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she- bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrumhimself, withthelittleround buttonat top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as- catch-can till the gunpowder ran out of theheels of their boots.
The courts of Europe are a jungle, compared to which your jungles here are a well-kept garden.
'Tisjust likea summerbirdcageinagarden; thebirdsthat are without despair toget in, and thebirdsthat are within despair, and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out.
:The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. : It ends with Revelations.
The Muses'garden, with pedantic weeds O'erspread, was purged by thee; the lazy seeds Of servile imitation thrown away, And fresh invention planted.
Nothing grows in ourgarden, only washing. And babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away.
The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.
If Everton were playing down at the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.
A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew. 785
Cela est bien dit, re¤ pondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin. 'Well said',Candide replied,'but we must cultivate our own garden.'
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