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garden

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/

The English word “garden” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
  2. Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
  3. Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
  4. An ornamental garden featuring plants and other features to attract, house, conserve, benefit and/or display certain animals.
  5. The grounds at the front or back of a house.
  6. A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
  7. The twentieth Lenormand card.
  8. A cluster; a bunch.
  9. Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

verb

  1. To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
  2. Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
  3. To smoke marijuana.

adjective

  1. Common, ordinary, domesticated.

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. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low…

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