garden
Forms
- Plural
- gardens
- present (v1)
- garden
- past (v2)
- gardened
- past participle (v3)
- gardened
- present participle
- gardening
- 3rd person singular
- gardens
Definitions
1.An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.
2.The grounds at the front or back of a house.
- Our garden is overgrown with weeds.
- We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.
- This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.
3.The twentieth Lenormand card.
- There's a snake in the garden.
- We grow vegetables in our garden.
- There is a garden in front of the house.
4.A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
- There's a snake in the garden.
- We grow vegetables in our garden.
- There is a garden in front of the house.
1.Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
2.To smoke marijuana.(slang)
3.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.
1.Common, ordinary, domesticated.
- In that case, the thing was mere plain or garden robbery.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1341
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
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.