garden
pronunciation
How to pronounce garden in British English:
UK [ˈɡɑːdn]
How to pronounce garden in American English:
US [ˈɡɑːrdn]
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- Noun:
- a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
- the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden
- a yard or lawn adjoining a house
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- Verb:
- work in the garden
Word Origin
- garden
- garden: [14] Ultimately, garden and yard are the same word. Both come from prehistoric Germanic *gardon, but whereas yard reached English via a direct Germanic route, garden diverted via the Romance languages. Vulgar Latin borrowed *gardon as *gardo ‘enclosure’, and formed from it the adjective *gardīnus ‘enclosed’. The phrase hortus gardīnus ‘enclosed garden’ came to be abbreviated to gardīnus, which gave Old Northern French gardin, the source of the English word (more southerly dialects of Old French had jardin, borrowed by Italian as giardino).=> yard
- garden (n.)
- late 13c. (late 12c. in surnames), from Old North French gardin "(kitchen) garden; orchard; palace grounds" (Old French jardin, 13c., Modern French jardin), from Vulgar Latin hortus gardinus "enclosed garden," via Frankish *gardo or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (cognates: Old Frisian garda, Old Saxon gardo, Old High German garto, German Garten "a garden," Old English geard, Gothic gards "enclosure;" see yard (n.1)). Italian giardino, Spanish jardin are from French. As an adjective from c. 1600. Garden-party "company attending an entertainment on the lawn or garden of a private house" is by 1843. Garden-variety in figurative sense first recorded 1928. To lead someone up the garden path "entice, deceive" is attested by 1925. Garden-glassgarden-glass "round dark glass reflective globe (about a foot and a half across) placed on a pedestal, used as a garden ornament," is from 1842.
- garden (v.)
- "to lay out and cultivate a garden," 1570s, from garden (n.). Related: Gardened; gardening.
Example
- 1. Tom briggs wanted half the garden for his farm .
- 2. A wildlife garden is open april to september only .
- 3. Now it 's nibbling at the garden wall and every creak triggers a chilling question mark .
- 4. Within two years , tobacco grows in every garden .
- 5. It can also affect garden shrubs , such as rhododendron and camellia .