GARDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garden mean? 

• GARDEN (noun)
  The noun GARDEN has 3 senses:

1. a plot of ground where plants are cultivated

2. the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

3. a yard or lawn adjoining a house

  Familiarity information: GARDEN used as a noun is uncommon.

• GARDEN (adjective)
  The adjective GARDEN has 1 sense:

1. the usual or familiar type

  Familiarity information: GARDEN used as an adjective is very rare.

• GARDEN (verb)
  The verb GARDEN has 1 sense:

1. work in the garden

  Familiarity information: GARDEN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARDEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plot of ground where plants are cultivated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("garden" is a kind of...):

patch; plot; plot of ground; plot of land (a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garden"):

formal garden (a garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs)

topiary (a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals)

tea garden (a public garden where tea is served)

sunken garden (a garden set below the level of the ground surrounding it)

rose garden (a garden for growing roses)

roof garden (a garden on a flat roof of a building)

rock garden; rockery (a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants)

pot farm (a plot of ground where marijuana is grown and harvested (often hidden in a national forest))

market garden (a garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing)

landscaping (a garden laid out for esthetic effect)

kitchen garden; vegetable garden; vegetable patch (a small garden where vegetables are grown)

hop field; hop garden (a garden where hops are grown)

herb garden (a garden for growing herbs)

grove; orchard; plantation; woodlet (garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth)

flower garden (a garden featuring flowering plants)

Instance hyponyms:

Hanging Gardens of Babylon (a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC)

Derivation:

garden (work in the garden)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("garden" is a kind of...):

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Derivation:

garden (work in the garden)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A yard or lawn adjoining a house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("garden" is a kind of...):

curtilage; grounds; yard (the enclosed land around a house or other building)

Meronyms (parts of "garden"):

patio; terrace (usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence)

Derivation:

garden (work in the garden)

• GARDEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The usual or familiar type

Context example:

it is a common or garden sparrow

Similar:

familiar (within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

• GARDEN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they garden    ... he / she / it gardens   
Past simple: gardened   
Past participle: gardened   
-ing form: gardening   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work in the garden

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

My hobby is gardening

Hypernyms (to "garden" is one way to...):

tend (have care of or look after)

Domain category:

gardening; horticulture (the cultivation of plants)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "garden"):

landscape (do landscape gardening)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)

garden (a yard or lawn adjoining a house)

garden (the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden)

gardener (someone who takes care of a garden)

gardener (someone employed to work in a garden)

gardening (the cultivation of plants)

 Context examples 

Holmes left us standing at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the front, down the tradesmen’s path, and so round by the garden behind into the stable lane.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

None did come for a week, and then yesterday morning I found this paper lying on the sundial in the garden.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was to be another father to him, and they were all to live together in a garden of roses, weren't they?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And, to the utter amazement of the assembled family, Beth walked deliberately down the garden, through the hedge, and in at the Laurences' door.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And I hastened upstairs as I saw him entering the garden.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I don't want to get into a bear-garden.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The square, when they got there, was full of wind and dust, and the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along the railing.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Governess and children hardly go out at all, except into the garden.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Do you consider,’ said his companion to him, ‘that you will be obliged to pay three months’ rent and to lose the produce of your garden?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Also called garden heliotrope, garden valerian, Indian valerian, Pacific valerian, valerian, Valeriana officinalis, and Valerianae radix.

(Mexican valerian, NCI Dictionary)